Sale did not long survive the carrying of this scheme into effect. He died of a fever, on the 13th of November, 1736, at his house in Surrey street, Strand, after an illness of only eight days, and was buried at St. Clement Danes. He was under the age of forty when he was thus suddenly snatched from his family, which consisted of a wife and five children. Of his sons, one was educated at New College, Oxford, of hich he became Fellow, and he was subsequently elected to a Fellowship in Winchester College. Sale is described as having had "a healthy constitution, and a communicative mind in a comely person." His library was valuable, and contained many rare and beautiful manuscripts in the Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and other languages; a circumstance which seems to show, that poverty, so often the lot of men whose lives are devoted to literary pursuits, was not one of the evils with which he was compelled to encounter. R. A. DAVENPORT, 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) Boet. CONTENTS. SECTIONS OF THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. Pago. 2. Of the State of Christianity, particularly of the Eastern Churches, and Judaism, at the time of Mohammed's appearance; and of the methods taken by him for the establishing his Religion, and the circumstances which concurred thereto... 23 3. Of the Koran itself, the Peculiarities of that book; the Manner of its being written and published, and the general Design of it................. 4. Of the Doctrines and positive Precepts of the Korân which relate to Faith and ៦ ៩ Of the Months commanded by the Korân to be kept sacred; and of the setting 3. Intitled, The Family of Imrân; containing 200 (199) verses.. 4. Intitled, Women; containing 175 verses ...... 17. Intitled, The Night Journey; containing 110 (111) verses. 18. Intitled, The Cave; containing 111 (110) verses..... 19. Intitled, Mary; containing 80 (98) verses ....... 20. Intitled, T. H.; containing 134 (135) verses...... 21. Intitled, The Prophets; containing 112 verses...... 22. Intitled, The Pilgrimage; containing 78 verses... 23. Intitled, The True Believers; containing 118 verses 24. Intitled, Light; containing 74 (64) verses....... 25. Intitled, Al Forkan (The Korân); containing 77 verses 26. Intitled, The Poets; containing 227 (228) verses.... 27. Intitled, The Ant; containing 93 (95) verses ...... 28. Intitled, The Story (The History); containing 87 (88 verses Chap. 95. 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 38. Intitled, S.; containing 86 (88) verses..... 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 12. Intitled, Consultation (The Council); containing 53 verses..... 393 43. Intitled, The Ornaments of Gold (Dress); containing 89 verses 47. Intitled, Mohammed (The Battle); containing 38 (40) verses 410 48. Intitled, The Victory; containing 29 verses. . . . . . . 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 52. Intialed, The Mountain; containing 48 (49) verses .. 56. Intitled, The Inevitable (The Judgment); containing 99 (96) verses 57. Intitled, Iron; containing 29 verses...... 58. Intitled, She who disputed (The Complaint); containing 22 verses....... 63. Intitled, The Hypocrites (The Impious); containing 11 verses... 64. Intitled, Mutual Deceit (Knavery); containing 18 verses 65. Intitled, Divorce; containing 12 verses ...... 69. Intitled, The Infallible (The Inevitable Day); containing 52 verses... ........ 462 70. Intitled, The Steps (The Classes or The Orders); containing 44 verses........ 464 71. Intitled, Noah; containing 28 verses ... ... 466 72. Intitled, The Genii; containing 28 verses.. 467 73. Intitled, The Wrapped up (The Prophet clothed in his Dress); containing 19 74. Intitled, The Covered (The Mantle); containing 55 verses.. 77. Intitled, Those which are sent (The Messengers); containing 50 verses....... 476 verses ... ...... 478 479 482 80. Intitled, He Frowned (The Frowning Brow); containing 42 verses. 81. Intitled, The Folding up (The Darkness); containing 29 (28) verses ....... 480 82. Intitled, The Cleaving asunder (The Breaking); oontaining 19 verses ........ 83. Intitled, Those who give short Measure or Weight (The Unjust Measure); containing 36 verses...... 482 84. Intitled, The Rending in sunder (The Opening); containing 23 (25) verscs 85. Intitled, The Celestial Signs; containing 22 verses.. 86. Intitled, The Star which appeareth by Night (The Nocturnal Star); containing ... 484 485 17 verses..... 486 |