Up to this point I have analyzed the development of Stubbe's ideas chronologically and according as they appear in print. But I must now deviate from that rigid chronological treatment in an effort to throw some light upon Stubbe's fundamental political and religious ideas as they developed during the Restoration, which in turn will illuminate major issues dealt with in both the last chapter and the next. To do this I must examine a document out of strict chronological sequence, Stubbe's An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism. It was not written before 1671, when Stubbe mentioned his intention to set down his thoughts on the subject. So he had entertained the ideas that it contains before he wrote them out, and indeed they chime with views he held before and after the Restoration which we have already met with.

Stubbe's Account existed only in manuscript copies for two centuries before it was published for the first time in 1911.