The History of Arabia: Ancient and Modern ...Harper & brothers, 1868 |
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Abdallah Abu Beker Abu Moslem Abulfeda Amru ancient apostle appear Arabia Arabs arms army Arrian authority battle beauty Bedouins besieged Burckhardt caliph camels capital captives celebrated chap chief Christian coast command conqueror conquests Damascus death descended desert Divine East Egypt emperor empire enemy Euphrates expedition faith favour gold Greeks gulf Hamadan hand Hareth head heaven Hejaz Hejira Heraclius Hira Hist historians honour horse inhabitants Irak Islam Jews journey Kaaba Khaled kings Koran Koreish Mecca Medina miles Moawiyah Mohammed Mohammedan Moslems mosque mountains Musa Mussulman nations native Niebuhr Nooman Obeidah Omar paradise Persian Petra plain plunder prince Prophet provinces Ptolemy reckoned Red Sea regions reign religion religious rocks Roman sacred Saracens siege Sinai slave soldiers sovereign Strabo success Suez sword Syria Tarik temple territory throne tion town travellers tribes troops valour victory Wady wealth whole writers Yemen Yezdijird Zobeir
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Página 151 - And thorns shall come up in her palaces, Nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: And it shall be an habitation of dragons, And a court for owls.
Página 90 - And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child, And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Página v - THE HISTORY OF ARABIA, Ancient and Modern. Containing a Description of the Country— An account of its Inhabitants, Antiquities, Political Condition, and early Commerce — The Life and Religion of Mohammed— The Conquests, Arts, and Literature...
Página 276 - The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel; he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes...
Página 230 - is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.
Página 158 - Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Página 158 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Página 286 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Página 147 - The inner and wider extremity of the circuitous defile by which the city is approached is sculptured and excavated in a singular manner ; and these become more frequent on both sides, until at last it has the appearance of a continued street of tombs. About half-way through there is a single spot, abrupt and precipitous, where the area of this natural chasm spreads a little, and sweeps into an irregular circle. This had been chosen for the site of the most elaborate, if not the most extensive, of...
Página 209 - Verily Christ Jesus the son of Mary is the apostle of God, and his Word, which he conveyed into Mary, and a spirit proceeding from him. Believe, therefore, in God, and his apostles, and say not, There are three Gods ; " forbear this ; it will be better for you. God is but one God.