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8 only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties but millions of men in one third of the inhabited world, and more than that, moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls on the basis of a Book, every letter of wh ich has become law. He created a spiritual nationality of every tongue and of every race. ” ( Historie de la Turque , Vol. 2, page 76 - 77) 6. DR. MICHAEL H. HART: A WELL KNOWN MODERN HISTORIAN Dr. Michael Hart, who considers the Holy Prophet to be the greatest man who ever lived, writes: “I find in his character such diverse and manifold qualities as it would be impossible to find in any other man whose biography has been preserved by history. He is a king having a whole country under his control, but never claiming mastery even on his own self, ever taking pride in his being the serf of God. ” ( The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Person in History ). 7. KAREN ARMSTRONG A modern research scholar of Islam Karen Armstrong, wrote in her book: “Muhammad had to start virtually from scratch and work his way towards the radical monotheistic