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Gladys M. Draycott

Best known today for Mahomet: Founder of Islam, this early-20th-century writer approached a major religious figure with the scale and seriousness of a full historical biography. Very little is firmly documented about her life, which gives her work an unusual sense of mystery.

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Mahomet, Founder of Islam

Mahomet, Founder of Islam

by Gladys M. Draycott

About the author

Gladys M. Draycott is a little-documented author associated with the 1910s. Wikisource lists her as Dr Gladys M. Draycott (fl. 1910s) and notes Mahomet: Founder of Islam among her works.

Her best-known book, Mahomet: Founder of Islam, was published by Dodd, Mead in 1916. Surviving catalog and ebook records show it as a substantial biography of Muhammad, running to roughly 345 pages, and it has remained accessible through later digitizations and reprints.

Because reliable biographical information about Draycott herself is scarce, the work tends to stand in for the author: a serious, book-length study written for general readers and still circulating more than a century later. No clearly verified portrait of her was found from the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included.