Mahomet, what's the matter?
Mahomet, there's no time for talking.
To his[Mahomet's] eyes it is forever clear that this world
wholly is miraculous.
This business was an immediate success and Dean Mahomet became known as"Dr. Brighton".
I will be Mahomet again if it will make you feel not like that.
Following Zaïre, Voltaire continued to write tragic plays, including Mahomet in 1736 and Nanine in 1749.
He was also the first Indian to publish a
book in English named‘The Travels of Dean Mahomet'.
In 1748, after having read Henri de Boulainvilliers and George
Sale,[71] he wrote again about Mohammed and Islam in an article,"De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet"(On the Quran and on Mohammed).
In 1748, after having read Henri de Boulainvilliers et Georges
Sale,[53] he wrote again about Mohammed and Islam in an article,"De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet"(On the Quran and on Mohammed).
Voltaire had a somewhat mixed opinion on Muhammad: in
his play Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophète he vilifies Muhammad as a symbol of fanaticism, and in
a published essay in 1748 he calls him"a sublime and hearty charlatan", but in his historical survey Essai sur les mœurs, he presents him as legislator and a conqueror and calls him an"enthusiast.