* Note: Compare, likewise, the new Life of Mahomet (Mohammed der prophet) by Dr.Weil, (Stuttgart, 1843.) Dr.Weil has a new tradition, that Mahomet was at one time a shepherd.

This assimilation to the life of Moses, instead of giving probability to the story, as Dr.
Weil suggests, makes it more suspicious.

Note, p.

34 .-- M.

1845.] [Footnote 70: Those who believe that Mahomet could read or write are incapable of reading what is written with another pen, in the Suras, or chapters of the Koran, vii.xxix.xcvi.These texts, and the tradition of the Sonna, are admitted, without doubt, by Abulfeda, (in Vit.