The History of the Saracens: Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors, to the Death of Abdalmelik, the Eleventh Caliph. With an Account of Their Most Remarkable Battles, Sieges, Revolts, &c. Collected from Authentic Sources, Especially Arabic MssH.G. Bohn, 1857 - 512 pages |
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... called a sot , than a man that eats a hearty meal would be willing to be called a glutton . " As for those detractors , if I have but the least assurance of your lordship's favour , I can very easily despise them . They are nati ...
... called a sot , than a man that eats a hearty meal would be willing to be called a glutton . " As for those detractors , if I have but the least assurance of your lordship's favour , I can very easily despise them . They are nati ...
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... called Saracens , are divided by their historians into three classes : 1. The primitive Arabians , who inhabited Arabia immediately after the flood : of whom nothing now remains but the names of their tribes , as Adites , Thamudites ...
... called Saracens , are divided by their historians into three classes : 1. The primitive Arabians , who inhabited Arabia immediately after the flood : of whom nothing now remains but the names of their tribes , as Adites , Thamudites ...
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... called Ishmaelites and Hagarens . This does not agree with Scripture , which tells us , that the mother of Ishmael took him a wife out of the land of Egypt , Gen. xxi . 21 . But here I would have it once for all observed , that we shall ...
... called Ishmaelites and Hagarens . This does not agree with Scripture , which tells us , that the mother of Ishmael took him a wife out of the land of Egypt , Gen. xxi . 21 . But here I would have it once for all observed , that we shall ...
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... called the sepul- chre of Ishmael ; there is also another stone called the station of Abraham , which they say being used by him for a scaffold rose higher with him as the walls of the building rose ; and that , after he had done ...
... called the sepul- chre of Ishmael ; there is also another stone called the station of Abraham , which they say being used by him for a scaffold rose higher with him as the walls of the building rose ; and that , after he had done ...
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... on A.D. 571. Mohammed died in 632 , aged 63 ; but the Arabs reckoned his life by lunar years , which reduces his life nearly to 61 . " - Milman's Gibbon , pre- from him called Hashemites . * He managed to A. D. 571 . 5 HIS BIRTH .
... on A.D. 571. Mohammed died in 632 , aged 63 ; but the Arabs reckoned his life by lunar years , which reduces his life nearly to 61 . " - Milman's Gibbon , pre- from him called Hashemites . * He managed to A. D. 571 . 5 HIS BIRTH .
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