Books/Writings
Mohammed
570 – 632
Arab

Founder of Islam. Like Judaism and Christianity, Islam is a "religion of the book" rooted in the Hebrew bible. But its principal source is the Koran, which was revealed to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel and written down for posterity. Mohammed was expelled from his native Mecca, in the Arabian Peninsula, for preaching his uncompromising form of monotheism, but eventually returned at the head of a conquering army.

Contemporaries
fl. c. 625–c. 706Wu Zetian
600–664Xuanzang
574–622Shotoku Taishi
581–644Omar
602–680Muawiyah I
605–633Fatima
521–597St. Columba
484–577St. Brendan
573–664'Amr ibn al-'As
613–678Aishah
573–634Abu-Bakr