Translations from the Hakayit Abdulla, with comments by J.T. Thomson |
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Page 4
... Mahomedan and a British subject , having been born in Malacca in the year 1797 , which date is derived from information given near the end of the manuscript , wherein he states that in the year 1843 he was forty - six years of age . He ...
... Mahomedan and a British subject , having been born in Malacca in the year 1797 , which date is derived from information given near the end of the manuscript , wherein he states that in the year 1843 he was forty - six years of age . He ...
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... Mahomedan books , and he well describes the palpitating doubts of one about to undertake the load of authorship , but he , notwithstanding this , clearly gives us to understand that he will hold his own against all competitors . He ...
... Mahomedan books , and he well describes the palpitating doubts of one about to undertake the load of authorship , but he , notwithstanding this , clearly gives us to understand that he will hold his own against all competitors . He ...
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... Mahomedans with their Koran ; yet what sect is more zealous than they ? The strokes of the propagator seem to ... Mahomedan school- master seems to have outdone even our old - fashioned holders of the birch in the variety of his ...
... Mahomedans with their Koran ; yet what sect is more zealous than they ? The strokes of the propagator seem to ... Mahomedan school- master seems to have outdone even our old - fashioned holders of the birch in the variety of his ...
Page 38
... Maho- medan's meaning correctly , the word he uses being " hamba , " - i.e . , slave , and not " mehkluk , " creature . The phrase is strange to the European ear , and is used by Mahomedans , I presume , from motives of doctrine , they ...
... Maho- medan's meaning correctly , the word he uses being " hamba , " - i.e . , slave , and not " mehkluk , " creature . The phrase is strange to the European ear , and is used by Mahomedans , I presume , from motives of doctrine , they ...
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... Mahomedan Malays , and the narrow limits within which it is imparted . On the part of the Arabs , who are the most influential class , education in its real sense would not be given to the Malays from policy 56 HAKAYIT ABDULLA .
... Mahomedan Malays , and the narrow limits within which it is imparted . On the part of the Arabs , who are the most influential class , education in its real sense would not be given to the Malays from policy 56 HAKAYIT ABDULLA .
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