The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed: Translated ... with Explanatory Notes ... To which is Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse by George Sale ...Lippincott, 1870 - 802 pages |
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... inhabitants are obliged to use rain - water which they catch in cisterns . " But this not being sufficient , several attempts were made to bring water thither from other places by aqueducts ; and particularly about Mohammed's time ...
... inhabitants are obliged to use rain - water which they catch in cisterns . " But this not being sufficient , several attempts were made to bring water thither from other places by aqueducts ; and particularly about Mohammed's time ...
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... inhabitants of this spacious country , which they have possessed from the most remote antiquity , are distinguished by their own writers into two classes , viz . the old lost Arabians , and the present . The former were very numerous ...
... inhabitants of this spacious country , which they have possessed from the most remote antiquity , are distinguished by their own writers into two classes , viz . the old lost Arabians , and the present . The former were very numerous ...
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... inhabitants , and watering their lands , but also to keep the country they had subjected in greater awe by being masters of the water . This building stood like a mountain above their city , and was by them esteemed so strong , that ...
... inhabitants , and watering their lands , but also to keep the country they had subjected in greater awe by being masters of the water . This building stood like a mountain above their city , and was by them esteemed so strong , that ...
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... inhabitants were asleep , and carried away the whole city with the neighbouring towns and people . The tribes which remained in Yaman after this terrible devastation still continued under the obedience of the former princes , till about ...
... inhabitants were asleep , and carried away the whole city with the neighbouring towns and people . The tribes which remained in Yaman after this terrible devastation still continued under the obedience of the former princes , till about ...
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... inhabitants of Tayef , especially the women , bitterly lamented the loss of this their deity , which they were so fond of , that they begged Moharnmed , as a condition of peace , that it might not be destroyed for three years , and not ...
... inhabitants of Tayef , especially the women , bitterly lamented the loss of this their deity , which they were so fond of , that they begged Moharnmed , as a condition of peace , that it might not be destroyed for three years , and not ...
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Abraham Abu Jahl Abulfed Abulfeda according afterwards Al Beidâwi Al Ghazali alms angels answered apostle Arabs Beidâwi Caaba called cause chap chapter children of Israel Christians command creatures D'Herbel day of resurrection death Disc divine evil faith father favour fear follow genii give God's grievous hath created hearts hell fire honour ibid Idem idolaters idolatry idols infidels inhabitants Intitled Jallalo'ddin Jesus Jews judgment knoweth Korân Koreish Medina mercy Mohammed Mohammed's Mohammedans Moses Moslems night Noah opinion paradise passage was revealed person Pharaoh pleaseth prayer Prelim pretend prophet punishment received religion REVEALED AT MECCA reward Savary say unto scriptures sect sent down unto servants signifies signs unto soul Spec suppose surely Syria Thamud therein thereof things thou shalt thy LORD tribe true believers truth ubi sup unbelievers unto thee Verily verses Vide Poc wherefore wicked words worship Zamakh Zamakhshari