Military successes had, in a worldly sense made the religion of the Koran profitable; and, no matter what dogmas may be, when that is the case, there will be plenty of converts.
As to the popular doctrines of Mohammedanism, I shall here have nothing to say.

The reader who is interested in that matter will find an account of them in a review of the Koran in the eleventh chapter of my "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe." It is enough now to remark that their heaven was arranged in seven stories, and was only a palace of Oriental carnal delight.

It was filled with black-eyed concubines and servants.

The form of God was, perhaps, more awful than that of paganized Christianity.

Anthropomorphism will, however, never be obliterated from the ideas of the unintellectual.