=Literature.=--_Warner_, Library of the World's Best Literature (see article on the Koran); _Johonnot_, Geographical Reader; _Lane-Poole_, Story of the Moors in Spain; _Lord_, Beacon Lights of History; _Thalheimer_, Mediaeval and Modern History; _Stille_, Studies in Mediaeval History; _Irving_, Mahomet and his Successors; _Church_, The Beginnings of the Middle Ages; _Andrews_, Institutes of General History; _White_, Eighteen Christian Centuries; _Myers_, Mediaeval and Modern History; _Mombert_, Great Lives; _Clarke_, Ten Great Religions; _Ferris_, Great Leaders; _Laurie_, Rise of the Universities; _Walker, John Brisben_, The Building of an Empire ("Cosmopolitan," Feb.-Sept., 1899); "North American Review," Vol. 171, p. 754. We have thus far described the work of Christian education. Parallel with this and almost entirely independent of it grew the educational work of the Moslems. This was a very important movement most valuable to civilization. =History of Mohammedanism.=--Mohammedanism dates from the time of the Hegira, or flight of Mohammed from Mecca, A.D. 622. From this date Moslems reckon their time, as the Christian world reckons from the birth of Christ. Mohammed first appeared as prophet when forty years of age. The religion of the Arabs was a most degraded one, and there was great need of the reformation which Mohammed undertook. The prophet was not well received at first, and, being obliged to flee from Mecca, he retired to a cave at Medina, where he meditated and studied. It was during this retirement that he wrote the Koran, the Bible of the Mohammedans. He claimed that the angel Gabriel appeared to him, giving him a new revelation, which was more significant than that of the Christians. Indeed, these so-called revelations were strangely suited to the varying ambition of the founder of this religion. The Koran teaches that as Jesus was greater than Moses, so Mohammed was greater than Jesus.