Selections from the Kur-án, Volume 30; Volume 457Trübner, 1879 - 173 pages |
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Page xxiv
... followed the conquests of Islám extinguished the old songs , which were no longer suitable to the new con- ditions of things ; and as they were seldom recorded in writing , we possess but a little remnant of them.1 Yet these fragments ...
... followed the conquests of Islám extinguished the old songs , which were no longer suitable to the new con- ditions of things ; and as they were seldom recorded in writing , we possess but a little remnant of them.1 Yet these fragments ...
Page xxxviii
... followed by the poverty and decline of their heirs . The duty of providing the pilgrims with food was given up by the Háshimees to the rival branch of Umeyyeh , whilst they retained only the lighter office of serving water to the ...
... followed by the poverty and decline of their heirs . The duty of providing the pilgrims with food was given up by the Háshimees to the rival branch of Umeyyeh , whilst they retained only the lighter office of serving water to the ...
Page xli
... followed any bier he met , accepted the invitation of a slave to dinner , mended his own clothes , milked his goats , and waited upon himself , " relates summarily another tradition . He never first with- drew his hand out of another ...
... followed any bier he met , accepted the invitation of a slave to dinner , mended his own clothes , milked his goats , and waited upon himself , " relates summarily another tradition . He never first with- drew his hand out of another ...
Page xlv
... followed in Aboo - Bekr's steps ; among them ' Othmán , the third Khalif , and Talhah , the man of war . The ranks of the faithful were swelled from humbler sources . There were many negro slaves in Mekka , and of them not a few had ...
... followed in Aboo - Bekr's steps ; among them ' Othmán , the third Khalif , and Talhah , the man of war . The ranks of the faithful were swelled from humbler sources . There were many negro slaves in Mekka , and of them not a few had ...
Page xlvii
... followed by more the next year , till the number reached one hundred . The Kureysh were very wroth at the escape of their victims , and sent ambassadors to the Nejáshee , the Christian king of Abyssinia , to demand that the refugees ...
... followed by more the next year , till the number reached one hundred . The Kureysh were very wroth at the escape of their victims , and sent ambassadors to the Nejáshee , the Christian king of Abyssinia , to demand that the refugees ...
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