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SECOND ARTICLE

BIOGRAPHIES OF MOHAMMED

FOR INDIA;

AND

THE MOHAMMEDAN CONTROVERSY

From the " Calcutta Review," 1852

1. Life of Mohammed. Bombay Tract and Book Society: Bombay, 1851.
2. The Life of Mohammed. London: Religious Tract Society.
3. Life of Mohammed. By Washington Irving. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.
4. Moulûd Sharîf. "The Ennobled Nativity." Lucknow, 1562 Heg. Cawnpore, 1267 Heg. Agra, 1268 Heg. (1852).
5. Kitâb i Istifsâr. (" Book of Questions.") Pp. 806. Lucknow, 1261 Heg.(1845).
6. Hall ul Ishkâl. (" Solution of Difficulties.") " A Reply to Kashf-ul-Astâr, and Kitâb i Istifsâr." Agra, 1847.

WITHIN the last ten or twenty years, the mind of Christian Europe has been directed, with more studious earnestness and dispassionate inquiry, towards the rise of Islam, than in any preceding period: and the progress made in searching out the truths of that crisis in the world's history, is characterised by corresponding success. Indeed, the amount of facts carefully collected, and of data philosophically weighed, within this short term is, perhaps, of greater value than all the labours of Christian writers during the twelve preceding centuries.