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An Apology for Mohammed and The Koran by John Davenport

AN APOLOGY FOR MOHAMMED AND THE KORAN

The present work is a humble but earnest endeavor to free the history of Mohammed from false accusations and illiberal imputations, and to vindicate his just claim to be regarded as one of the greatest benefactors of mankind.

The writers who, misguided by a blind zeal, have thus assailed the fair fame of the Restorer of the Worship of the Unity, have not only shown themselves to be wholly uninfluenced by the spirit of that charity so strongly and emphatically inculcated by the Savior himself, but have also erred in judgment,

for the least reflection would have convinced them that it is not from a Christian and modem stand-point that the Prophet and his doctrines ought to be examined and criticized, but from an Eastern one; in other words,

 Mohamed should be contemplated and judged as a religious reformer and legislator living in Arabia in the seventh century after Christ, and he must then, most undoubtedly, be acknowledged as the very greatest man whom Asia can claim as her son, if not,