Selections from the Kur-án, Volume 30; Volume 457Trübner, 1879 - 173 pages |
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Page vi
... Muslims of India , ignorant of Arabic , have used Lane's ' Selections ' as their Bible . In this edition I have endeavoured rather to carry out the original intention of the translator . Experience has shown that the first plan was over ...
... Muslims of India , ignorant of Arabic , have used Lane's ' Selections ' as their Bible . In this edition I have endeavoured rather to carry out the original intention of the translator . Experience has shown that the first plan was over ...
Page xix
... Muslim despots ; for it is related that a governor was once ordering - out some prisoners to execution , when one of them asked for a drink of water , which was immediately given him . He then turned to the governor and said , ' Wilt ...
... Muslim despots ; for it is related that a governor was once ordering - out some prisoners to execution , when one of them asked for a drink of water , which was immediately given him . He then turned to the governor and said , ' Wilt ...
Page xxvi
... Muslims ; and the Muslims cannot sit in the places of the old pagan Arabs . It is very difficult for the Western mind to dissociate the idea of Oriental poetry from the notion of amatory odes , and sonnets to the lady's eyebrow : but ...
... Muslims ; and the Muslims cannot sit in the places of the old pagan Arabs . It is very difficult for the Western mind to dissociate the idea of Oriental poetry from the notion of amatory odes , and sonnets to the lady's eyebrow : but ...
Page xxviii
... , especially in the towns , it was not what is meant by polygamy in a modern Muslim state : it was rather the patriarchal system of Abram and Sarai . There is much in the fragments of the ancient poetry xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... , especially in the towns , it was not what is meant by polygamy in a modern Muslim state : it was rather the patriarchal system of Abram and Sarai . There is much in the fragments of the ancient poetry xxviii INTRODUCTION .
Page xxix
... Muslim times in the poems of Aboo - Firás . Especially valuable is the evidence of the old poetry with regard to the love of a father for his daughters . Infanticide , which is com- monly attributed to the whole Arab nation of every age ...
... Muslim times in the poems of Aboo - Firás . Especially valuable is the evidence of the old poetry with regard to the love of a father for his daughters . Infanticide , which is com- monly attributed to the whole Arab nation of every age ...
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