Selections from the Kur-án, Volume 30; Volume 457Trübner, 1879 - 173 pages |
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Page xv
... mothers whose bed bears well , and fathers mighty . To the best of the uplands we wend , and when the season comes we travel adown to the best of fruitful valleys . Like rain of the heaven are we : there is not in all our line one blunt ...
... mothers whose bed bears well , and fathers mighty . To the best of the uplands we wend , and when the season comes we travel adown to the best of fruitful valleys . Like rain of the heaven are we : there is not in all our line one blunt ...
Page xxxiv
... anxiously hoping for male children if so be they might mother the Apostle of God ; and the more thoughtful minds , tinged with traditions of Judaism , were seeking for what they called ' the religion of Abraham xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... anxiously hoping for male children if so be they might mother the Apostle of God ; and the more thoughtful minds , tinged with traditions of Judaism , were seeking for what they called ' the religion of Abraham xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xxxvii
... mother when he was only six years old . The orphan was adopted by his grandfather , ' Abd- el - Muṭṭalib ; and a tender affection sprang up between the chief of eighty years and his little grandson . Many a day the old man might be seen ...
... mother when he was only six years old . The orphan was adopted by his grandfather , ' Abd- el - Muṭṭalib ; and a tender affection sprang up between the chief of eighty years and his little grandson . Many a day the old man might be seen ...
Page xxxviii
... mother . Such is the bare outline of Mohammad's childhood ; and of his youth we know about as little , though the Arabian biographies abound in legends , of which some may be true and most are certainly false . There are stories of his ...
... mother . Such is the bare outline of Mohammad's childhood ; and of his youth we know about as little , though the Arabian biographies abound in legends , of which some may be true and most are certainly false . There are stories of his ...
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... mother , and will help us to overawe the Jews ; and if he is the coming prophet , it is our policy to recognise him before those Jews who are always threatening us with their Messiah . ' The teaching of Mohammad was so nearly Jewish ...
... mother , and will help us to overawe the Jews ; and if he is the coming prophet , it is our policy to recognise him before those Jews who are always threatening us with their Messiah . ' The teaching of Mohammad was so nearly Jewish ...
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