Selections from the Kur-án, Volume 30; Volume 457Trübner, 1879 - 173 pages |
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Page xi
... entering the arena of the fight ; - swept on its northern frontier by the conflicting armies of Khusru and Cæsar , but lifting never a hand in either cause ; -Arabia was at length to issue forth from its silent mystery , and after ...
... entering the arena of the fight ; - swept on its northern frontier by the conflicting armies of Khusru and Cæsar , but lifting never a hand in either cause ; -Arabia was at length to issue forth from its silent mystery , and after ...
Page xxiv
... enter into the real beauty of the old Arab poetry . The life it depicts is so unlike any we can now witness , that it is almost re- moved beyond the pale of our sympathies . The poetry is loaded with metaphors and similes , which to us ...
... enter into the real beauty of the old Arab poetry . The life it depicts is so unlike any we can now witness , that it is almost re- moved beyond the pale of our sympathies . The poetry is loaded with metaphors and similes , which to us ...
Page xxvii
... enter- tained as to the state of women in preïslamic times is based mainly on what Moḥammad saw around him in Mekka , and not on the ordinary life of the desert . To such a conjecture a curiously uniform support is lent by the ancient ...
... enter- tained as to the state of women in preïslamic times is based mainly on what Moḥammad saw around him in Mekka , and not on the ordinary life of the desert . To such a conjecture a curiously uniform support is lent by the ancient ...
Page xlvi
... entered upon a more public career . He sum- moned the Kureysh to a conference at the hill of Es - Safá , and said , ' I am come to you as a warner , and as the forerunner of a fearful punishment . . . . I cannot protect you in this ...
... entered upon a more public career . He sum- moned the Kureysh to a conference at the hill of Es - Safá , and said , ' I am come to you as a warner , and as the forerunner of a fearful punishment . . . . I cannot protect you in this ...
Page lvii
... with us . ' And a spider , they say , wove its web over the entrance of the cave , so that the Kureysh passed on , think- ing that no man had entered there . On the third night the pursuit had been almost given MOHAMMAD . Ivii.
... with us . ' And a spider , they say , wove its web over the entrance of the cave , so that the Kureysh passed on , think- ing that no man had entered there . On the third night the pursuit had been almost given MOHAMMAD . Ivii.
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