The Contemporary Review, Volume 43A. Strahan, 1883 |
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Page 680
... Fostat - i.e . , the tent . As the town grew , the Arabic name of Egypt , Misr or Masr , was transferred to it , and among the present Moslem inhabitants of the Nile Valley and the Cairenes themselves , it is still called nothing else ...
... Fostat - i.e . , the tent . As the town grew , the Arabic name of Egypt , Misr or Masr , was transferred to it , and among the present Moslem inhabitants of the Nile Valley and the Cairenes themselves , it is still called nothing else ...
Page 682
... Fostat and Babylon got completely united , and the new place soon became the central seat of the Government , and by its fresh energetic growth cast the venerable , but back - going and age - enfeebled , Memphis on the other bank of the ...
... Fostat and Babylon got completely united , and the new place soon became the central seat of the Government , and by its fresh energetic growth cast the venerable , but back - going and age - enfeebled , Memphis on the other bank of the ...
Page 684
... Fostat had still much material in the form of traditions , although they had for centuries abandoned their obsolete complicated system of writing and had accustomed themselves to the use of Greek letters . Even the rude speech of ...
... Fostat had still much material in the form of traditions , although they had for centuries abandoned their obsolete complicated system of writing and had accustomed themselves to the use of Greek letters . Even the rude speech of ...
Page 842
... Fostat . But who opened the understanding of the untutored sons of the desert to this finest bloom of a highly cultured intellectual life ? It was not the Greeks , for the Greeks regarded the intruders . with implacable hostility , and ...
... Fostat . But who opened the understanding of the untutored sons of the desert to this finest bloom of a highly cultured intellectual life ? It was not the Greeks , for the Greeks regarded the intruders . with implacable hostility , and ...
Page 847
... Fostat ( † 833 ) , published with his geography , are said to have excelled those of Ptolemæus himself . It is known that the great Syntaxis of Ptolemæus , under its Arabic name of Almagest ( uɛyiorn - i.e . , the greatest ) , and the ...
... Fostat ( † 833 ) , published with his geography , are said to have excelled those of Ptolemæus himself . It is known that the great Syntaxis of Ptolemæus , under its Arabic name of Almagest ( uɛyiorn - i.e . , the greatest ) , and the ...
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