1901. This work represents an edition of the World's Epoch-Makers series. So much has been written, and so much learning and study devoted to the history of Muhammad and the religious and political power which he founded, and which now, after thirteen centuries, seems, as a religion, not less firmly established than it ever was, that one who approaches the subject today cannot hope to do much more than sift and select from the labors of those who have gone before him.