Introduction: Washington Irving and Islam / Zubeda Jalalzai -- Spanish orientalism: Washington Irving and the romance of the Moors / Michael Stevens -- What pious Moslem writers tell us: Irving's filtering of his sources in Mahomet and his successors / Ray Lacina -- A Knickerbocker prophet: Washington irving's Americanization of Mahomet" / Doyle Quiggle -- Think local, act global: the development of Islam in Washington Irving's Mahomet and his successors / Jeffrey Scraba -- Irving's cadijah and women of power in Salmagundi and Mahomet / Tracy Hoffman -- Afterword: the seal and conclusion / Jeffrey Einboden.