Selections from the Kur-án, Volume 30; Volume 457Trübner, 1879 - 173 pages |
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Page xii
... Mekka and Medina . Here is the birthplace of Islám : the Arab tribes of the Hijáz and the Nejd were the first disciples of Mohammad . One may tell much of a people's character from its home . Truism as it seems , there is yet xii ...
... Mekka and Medina . Here is the birthplace of Islám : the Arab tribes of the Hijáz and the Nejd were the first disciples of Mohammad . One may tell much of a people's character from its home . Truism as it seems , there is yet xii ...
Page xxv
... Mekka and the south , but the poet - heroes of all the land resorted . The Fair of ' Okádh was held during the sacred months , —a sort of God's Truce , ' when blood could not be shed without a violation of the ancient customs and faiths ...
... Mekka and the south , but the poet - heroes of all the land resorted . The Fair of ' Okádh was held during the sacred months , —a sort of God's Truce , ' when blood could not be shed without a violation of the ancient customs and faiths ...
Page xxvii
... Mekka , and not on the ordinary life of the desert . To such a conjecture a curiously uniform support is lent by the ancient poetry of the desert ; and though the poets were then as they always are - men of finer mould than the rest ...
... Mekka , and not on the ordinary life of the desert . To such a conjecture a curiously uniform support is lent by the ancient poetry of the desert ; and though the poets were then as they always are - men of finer mould than the rest ...
Page xxx
... Mekka was the centre of this trading life , the typical Arab city of old times — a stirring little town , with its caravans bringing the silks and woven stuffs of Syria and the far - famed damask , and carrying away the sweet- smelling ...
... Mekka was the centre of this trading life , the typical Arab city of old times — a stirring little town , with its caravans bringing the silks and woven stuffs of Syria and the far - famed damask , and carrying away the sweet- smelling ...
Page xxxi
... Mekka was a great home of music and poetry , and this characteristic lasted into Muslim times . There is a story of a certain stonemason who had a wonder- ful gift of singing . When he was at work the young men used to come and ...
... Mekka was a great home of music and poetry , and this characteristic lasted into Muslim times . There is a story of a certain stonemason who had a wonder- ful gift of singing . When he was at work the young men used to come and ...
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