There is no doubt that Mohammed existed, occasional attempts to deny it notwithstanding.
For all that, we probably know more about Mohammed than we do about Jesus (let alone Moses or the Buddha), and we certainly have the potential to know a great deal more. In the case of Mohammed, Muslim literary sources for his life only begin around 750-800 CE (common era), some four to five generations after his death, and few Islamicists (specialists in the history and study of Islam) these days assume them to be straightforward historical accounts. Just as one shrine after the other obliterates the contours of the localities in which he was active, so one doctrine after another reshapes him as a figure for veneration and imitation for a vast number of people in times and places that he never knew. It is notoriously difficult to know anything for sure about the founder of a world religion. The prophet Muhammad solves a dispute over lifting the black stone into position at al-Kaaba | Rashid Al-Din.
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