 Arabia, whose creed maintains that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet, and teaches ceremonies by prayer, with washings, Ac., almsgiving, fasting, sobriety, pilgrima^f to Mecca, Ac.  Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: And Across the Great Desert, to ... - Page 81by René Caillié - 1830 - 1005 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Hatley Frere - Bible - 1826 - 576 pages
...speaking great words against " the Most High." The Mahometans acknowledge the power of God, proclaiming, that " there is but one God, and that Mahomet is " his prophet." But as Mahomet assumed a power that was not given to him, language similar to that of the text is used... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1829 - 238 pages
...MAHOMETANS, religious followers of Mahomet, the warrior and prophet of Arabia, whose creed maintains that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet; and teaches ceremonies by prayer, with washings, &c. almsgiving, fasting, sobriety, pilgrimage to Mtcca,... | |
 | George Crabb - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 426 pages
...divine mission of the impostot 244 Mahomet, the warrior and prophet of Arabia} whose creed maintains that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet. MAIDEN- HAIR. A plant, native of the south of France. . MAJESTY. -A title given commonly to kings.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...the doctrines and divine mission of Mahomet, the warrior and prophet of Arabia, whose creed maintains that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet, and teaches ceremonies MAI] Qfy Scientific antj literati) &rea8un} ; [MAL by prayer, with washings,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - France - 1845 - 700 pages
...faith, talking oracularly and orientally (by means of interpreters) : he repeated their brief credo, that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet, and at least hinted that he and his army, who had destroyed the Pope of Rome, and those other ancient... | |
 | Ferdinand Christian EWALD - 1846 - 306 pages
...chiefly for the use of the Arabs. The Mahometans have Five Articles of Faith ; namely, I. To believe that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet. II. To believe that every Mahometan is obliged to pray five times daily ; morning, noon, vespers, evening,... | |
 | 1870 - 494 pages
...faith which, as has been well remarked, " is compounded of an eternal truth and a necessary fiction : That there is but One GOD, and that Mahomet is His prophet." It is a marvellous fact, that a man animated at first by such pure motives and aiming at such high... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...the doctrines and divine mission of Mahomet, the warrior and prophet of Arabia, whose oread maintains that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet, and teaches ceremonies by prayer, with washirtgs, &c., almsgiving, fasting, sobriety, pilgrimage to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...the doctrines and divine mission of Mahomet, the warrior and prophet of Arabia, whose creed maintains that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet, and teaches ceremonies by prayer, with washings, Ac., almsgiving, fasting, sobriety, pilgrima^f to... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 454 pages
...right, but that he should think right, in order to enter paradise. Any Moslem who dies in the belief that there is but one God, and that Mahomet is his prophet, by that alone secures his salvation. A man of loose and dissolute life, who disobeys the preeepts of... | |
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