Page:Thomas Patrick Hughes - Notes on Muhammadanism - 2ed. (1877).djvu/22



earliest biographers of the Arabian Prophet, whose works are extant in Arabic, are Ibn-Isháq ( 151), Ibn-Hishám ( 218), Wáqidi ( 207), and Tabari ( 310). Ismail Abulfida, Prince of Hamah, in Syria ( 733), compiled a Life of Muhammad in Arabic, which was translated by John Gagnier, Professor of Arabic at Oxford ( 1723), and into English by the Rev. W. Murray, Episcopal clergyman at Duffus, in Scotland. Dr. Sprenger of Calcutta commenced a Life of Muham-

1