William Muir's theory of Muhammad I've just read the fascinating third chapter of William Muir's 1878 The Life of Mahomet, "The Belief of Mahomet in His Own Inspiration." In the great tradition of 19th century scholarship, Muir is an author who sees both the trees and the forest. He works closely from the original sources, presenting the facts about Mahomet (I'll use Muir's old-fashioned spelling here) as we have them from the Moslem tradition, while also offering his own critical assessment of those facts. He has a highly articulated point of view about Mahomet that seems to me exceptionally insightful....