Alexander Ross, The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated out of Arabick into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer, Lord of Malezair, and resident for the French king, at Alexandria. And newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities. (1649)

the Turks an obscure people of Scythia, therefore called Gog, because they were hid and unknown a long time, and the Saracens, who where a known people, and the open enemies of the Church, therefor called Magog; these treacherously combined together, oppressed first the Persians, and afterward the Greek Empire, with the famous Churches of Asia, Greece, and Egypt; We shall also finde that by the Star which fell from heaven, and opened the bottomless pit, whose smoke darkened the Sun, and out of which came the Locusts, whose terror is described by St. John, is meant Mahomet that great destroyer, as his name signifieth, answering to the name Appollyon, and Abaddon: for never was there such a destroyer, who by hus pestilent doctrine hath destroyed so many souls, and by the sword of his Locusts hath destroyed so many bodies and ruinated so many goodly Countries.

17. If you will take a brief view of the Alcoran you shall finde it a hodg-podge made up of those four ingredients. 1. Of Contradictions. 2. Of Blasphemie. 3. Of ridiculous Fables. 4. Of Lyes: first, of Contradictions he deth ordinarily say, and unsay he same thing; one while he tells us, that he was the first that ever entered into Paradise, and elsewhere he sayes he found men and women there; sometimes he affirms that Jews and Christians shall be saved by their own Religion, and sometimes again that none can be saved who embrace not his Alcoran: In one place following the Opinion of Origen, or rather of the Origenists he affirmed that all the devils shall be saved; in another place he saith only those devils shall be saved who hearken to, and obey his Alcoran. Secondly, of Blasphemy, for he blasphemeth God, in saying that he prayeth for Mahomet, intimating hereby that he is inferior ro that God he prayeth to; he makes God also swear by Flies, Worms, and such base creatures, as if he were their inferious, whereas God having none greater then himself, swears only by himself; He blasphemes the Father, in saying he cannot have a Son, because he is not married, as if there were no other generation but