The Life of Mahomet, Volume I [Table of Contents]

THE

THE LIFE OF MAHOMET.

VOLUME I.

WITH INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS ON THE ORIGINAL SOURCES

FOR THE BIOGRAPHY OF MAHOMET, AND ON THE

PRE-ISLAMITE HISTORY OF ARABIA

BY

WILLIAM MUIR, ESQ., Bengal Civil Service.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE
CHAPTER I	Sources for the Biography of Mahomet. The Coran, and Tradition.
CHAPTER II	The Aborigines and early Commerce of Arabia, as referred to in the Holy Scriptures, and by Classical Writers.
CHAPTER III	Ante-Mahometan History of Arabia, from the Sources preserved to us by Mahometan Tradition.
Section 1.	Yemen, and the Himyarite Dynasty.
Section 2.	The Kingdom of Hira.
Section 3.	The Ghassanide Dynasty.
Section 4.	Origin, and Early History of Mecca.
Section 5.	Sketch of the Chief Nomad Tribes in the Centre of the Peninsula.
Section 6.	Medina.
CHAPTER IV	The Forefathers of Mahomet, and History of Mecca, from the middle of the Fifth Century to the Birth of Mahomet 570 A.D.

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