| Constantin-François Volney - Egypt - 1788 - 552 pages
...SaIam-a!ai-Kom, health to you. Hence the word SaUtmahk, by EGYPf AND SYRIA. 401 "by their profeffion of faith, " There is but *' one God, and Mahomet is his prophet." They talk perpetually of their religion, and confider themfelves as the only faithful to God; To confute... | |
| Donald Campbell - Adventure and adventurers - 1796 - 536 pages
...mark, and thereby rendered all their other information at leaft doubtful. Perhaps the confummation of all policy was Mahomet's pretending to be an idiot,...as would require volumes to defcribe : however, in ftrict candour let us reflect, and afk our own hearts the queftion, whether fprinkling with holy water,... | |
| Donald Campbell - Adventure and adventurers - 1801 - 374 pages
...inspiration of HeavenHe called himself THE loiot PROPHET.* The whole of Mahomedanism may be reduced simply to this one article of faith—" There is but one GOD, and Mahutnet is the prophet ;" but upon this they have superinduced, from time to time, such a variety... | |
| Donald Campbell - Adventure and adventurers - 1807 - 452 pages
...immediate infpiration of Heaven—He called himfelf THE IDIOT PROPHET.* The whole of Mahorriedanifm may be reduced fimply to this one article of faith—" There is but one GOD, * Mohammed, ' ' ' and MAHOMET is his prophet ;" but upon ihfg they have fuperinduced, from time to... | |
| Hugh Murray, John Leyden - Africa - 1818 - 598 pages
...smuggle him into Paradise, by teaching him, before his exit, to pronounce the Mahometan confession of faith, There is but one God, and Mahomet is his prophet. The spectators formed a dismal chorus of screams and groans; but his disconsolate mother only exclaimed,... | |
| David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...parts, faith or theory, and religion or practice. Faith, or theory, is contained in this confession of faith — " There is but one God and Mahomet is his prophet." Under these two propositions are comprehended, six distinct branches.— 1. Belief in God. — 2. In... | |
| David Hoffman - 1841 - 380 pages
...that it bore a nearly obliterated Arabic inscription, containing the well known Mahometan confession of faith — 'There is but one God, and Mahomet is his prophet !' — and, moreover, that this chair came to the church among the spoils of the crusaders, when the... | |
| Anthony Rich - Chair of Saint Peter - 1851 - 44 pages
...influence stamped upon it by its unbelieving owner, viz., by inscribing upon it his own confession of faith, "THERE is BUT ONE GOD, AND MAHOMET is HIS PROPHET." Dr. Wiseman then proceeds to suggest a probable origin for what he is pleased to call Lady Morgan's... | |
| Charles Knight - Biography - 1867 - 540 pages
...characters, which with some difficulty they deciphered, and ascertained to be the well-known confession of faith, "There is but one God, and Mahomet is his Prophet" They supposed that the chair had been brought from the East in the time of the Crusades, and the meaning... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 532 pages
...characters, which with some difficulty they deciphered, and ascertained to be the well-known confession of faith, "There is but one God, and Mahomet is his Prophet." They supposed that the chair had been brought from the East iu the time of the Crusades, and the meaning... | |
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