MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH 1874 BY R. BOSWORTH SMITH, M.A. ASSISTANT-MASTER IN HARROW SCHOOL LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1874 All rights reserved UXORI MEE, NULLIUS NON LABORIS PARTICIPI, HUJUSCE PRÆSERTIM OPUSCULI INSTIGATRICI ET ADMINISTRÆ, STUDIORUM COMMUNITATIS HAS, QUALĖSCUNQUE SINT, PRIMITIAS DEDICO. PREFACE. THE substance of these Lectures was written early in 1872: they were originally intended only for a select audience of friends at Harrow, but on the suggestion of some of those who heard them they were afterwards considerably enlarged, and were delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain in the months of February and March 1874. They are an attempt, however imperfect, within a narrow compass, but, it is hoped, from a somewhat comprehensive and independent point of view, to render justice to what was great in Mohammed's character, and to what has been good in Mohammed's influence on the world. To original Oriental research they lay no claim, nor indeed to much originality at all; perhaps the |