The History of the Saracens: Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors...Bell, 1875 - 512 pagina's |
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Pagina xvii
... began to be cultivated to a very great degree , especially mathematics and astronomy . And , in order to promote learning and science , that noble caliph spared no cost , either to procure such Greek books as were serviceable to that ...
... began to be cultivated to a very great degree , especially mathematics and astronomy . And , in order to promote learning and science , that noble caliph spared no cost , either to procure such Greek books as were serviceable to that ...
Pagina xix
... began in the year of our Lord 833 ; and , if so , it is the same thing as if he had lived six hundred years after . For that author that lives one thousand years after any matter of fact , is as much a witness of it as he that lives but ...
... began in the year of our Lord 833 ; and , if so , it is the same thing as if he had lived six hundred years after . For that author that lives one thousand years after any matter of fact , is as much a witness of it as he that lives but ...
Pagina 10
... began to affect solitude , retiring frequently into a cave of mount Hara , near Mecca , to spend his time in fasting , prayer , and meditation . Here he is supposed to have com- posed so much of the Koran as he first published . Moham ...
... began to affect solitude , retiring frequently into a cave of mount Hara , near Mecca , to spend his time in fasting , prayer , and meditation . Here he is supposed to have com- posed so much of the Koran as he first published . Moham ...
Pagina 15
... began to preach ; but being in- terrupted by Abu Laheb , he invited them to a like feast the next day , and when it was over , he harangued then in the following words : ' I do not know any man in Arabia can make you a better present ...
... began to preach ; but being in- terrupted by Abu Laheb , he invited them to a like feast the next day , and when it was over , he harangued then in the following words : ' I do not know any man in Arabia can make you a better present ...
Pagina 17
... began to move his lips , and Al Abbas , putting his ear close to them , said , ' O nephew , he has repeated the words that you exhorted him to say . Upon hearing this , the apostle of God said , ' Praised be God who has directed you ...
... began to move his lips , and Al Abbas , putting his ear close to them , said , ' O nephew , he has repeated the words that you exhorted him to say . Upon hearing this , the apostle of God said , ' Praised be God who has directed you ...
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Pagina 263 - I have taken (said Amrou to the caliph) the great city of the west. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty ; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews. The town has been subdued by force of arms, without treaty or capitulation, and the Moslems are impatient to seize the...