ADVERTISEMENT. THE present Edition of Sale's Translation of the Korân will, it is hoped, be found to possess some advantages over every other. Many useful notes, and several hundred various readings, are added from the French version by Savary. Of the various readings, the major part give a different meaning from that which is adopted by the English translator; while the others, though agreeing with his idea of the text, are more poetically expressed. Great care has been taken to prevent the work from being disfigured by typographical errors, which are peculiarly objectionable in a work of this kind, because they render it unsafe to be consulted. A Sketch of the Life of Sale is also prefixed, which, though brief, contains several particulars not hitherto stated by any of his biographers, and vindicates, and it is believed satisfactorily, his memory from some aspersions that have been illiberally cast upon it by the prejudiced or the ignorant. (xvi) 1. Of the Arabs before Mohammed; or, as they express it, in the Time of Ignorance; 1 2. Of the State of Christianity, particularly of the Eastern Churches, and Judaism, 4. Of the Doctrines and positive Precepts of the Korân which relate to Faith and 5. Of certain negative Precepts in the Korân....... 40 50 87 6. Of the Institutions of the Korân in Civil Affairs ...... .... 94 Of the Months commanded by the Korân to be kept sacred; and of the setting ..... 105 8. Of the principal Sects among the Mohammedans; and of those who have pretended ... 107 (xvii) A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS OF THE KORAN.* Chap Page. 1. Intitled, The Preface, or Introduction; containing 7 verses. ........ 2 3. Intitled, The Family of Imrân; containing 200 (199) verses 35 ..... 59 5. Intitled, The Table; containing 120 verses .. 81 98 7. Intitled, Al Araf; containing 206 (205) verses 116 138 9. Intitled, The Declaration of Immunity (Conversion); containing 139 (130) 16. Intitled, The Bee (The Bees); containing 128 verses. 214 ... 226 237 248 255 264 273 281 287 25. Intitled, Al Forkan (The Korân); containing 77 verses 296 26. Intitled, The Poets; containing 227 (228) verses. 301 27. Intitled, The Ant; containing 93 (95) verses .... 309 28. Intitled, The Story (The History); containing 87 (88. verses 33. Intitled, The Confederates (The Conspirators); containing 73 verses.. * The titles and figures within parentheses are those which are given in the translation by SAVARY. (xviii) Chap. 35. Intitled, The Creator (The Angels); containing 45 verses 36. Intitled, Y. S. (I. S.); containing 83 verses...... Page. 357 ...... 361 37. Intitled, Those who rank themselves in Order (The Classes); containing 182 verses 365 39. Intitled, The troops; containing 75 verses 40. Intitled. The True Believer; containing 85 verses 371 377 . 383 41. Intitled, Are distinctly explained (The Explanation); containing 54 (55) verses.. 389 393 43. Intitled, The Ornaments of Gold (Dress); containing 89 verses 47. Intitled, Mohammed (The Battle); containing 38 (40) verses 410 413 49. Intitled, The Inner Apartments (The Sanctuary); containing 18 verses 417 50. Intitled, K.; containing 45 verses 420 51. Intitled, The Dispersing (The Breath of the Winds); containing 60 verses...... 422 56. Intitled, The Inevitable (The Judgment); containing 99 (96) verses 435 438 58. Intitled, She who disputed (The Complaint); containing 22 verses. 66. Intitled, Prohibition; containing 12 verses 67. Intitled, The Kingdom; containing 30 verses 69. Intitled, The Infallible (The Inevitable Day); containing 52 verses. 462 464 466 72. Intitled, The Genii; containing 28 verses. 467 73. Intitled, The Wrapped up (The Prophet clothed in his Dress); containing 19 469 74. Intitled, The Covered (The Mantle); containing 55 verses 77. Intitled, Those which are sent (The Messengers); containing 50 verses ....... 476 verses..... 80. Intitled, He Frowned (The Frowning Brow); containing 42 verses... 478 479 480 82. Intitled, The Cleaving asunder (The Breaking); oontaining 19 verses ........ 482 482 84. Intitled, The Rending in sunder (The Opening); containing 23 (25) verses.... 484 485 86. Intitled, The Star which appeareth by Night (The Nocturnal Star); containing 486 Chap. 87. Intitled, The Most High; containing 19 verses.. Page ..... 486 88. Intitled, The Overwhelming (The Gloomy Veil); containing 26 (27) verses... 487 . 488 90. Intitled, The Territory (The City); containing 20 verses . 490 ..... 491 . 491 93. Intitled, The Brightness (The Sun in his Meridian); containing 11 verses ... 492 493 493 96. Intitled, Congealed Blood (The Union of the Sexes); containing 19 verses.... 494 495 98. Intitled, The Evidence; containing 8 verses 495 .496 99. Intitled, The Earthquake; containing 8 verses.. 100. Intitled, The War Horses which run swiftly (The Coursers); con. 11 verses.. 497 105. Intitled, The Elephant; containing 5 verses.... 106. Intitled, Koreish, The Koreishites); containing 4 verses .... 107. Intitled, Necessaries (The Succouring Hand); containing 7 verses 108. Intitled, Al Cawthar; containing 3 verses 109. Intitled, The Unbelievers; containing 6 verses 112. Intitled, The Declaration of God's unity (Unity); containing 4 verses.. 498 499 : 499 501 501 502 503 503 504 ... 501 505 505 |