Jones, Brian Jay. Washington Irving: An American Original. New York: Arcade, 2008, 247. ISBN978-1-55970-836-4......Irving began writing notes for a book on Muhammed as early as 1827 while working on his biography of Christopher Columbus....(중략)...After returning to the United States from several years abroad, settled at his New York home Sunnyside, he rapidly completed The Life of Mahomet and Mahomet and His Successors, which were published in 1849 and 1850, respectively.
