The Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira: With Introductory Chapters on the Original Sources for the Biography of Mahomet and on the Pre-Islamite History of Arabia, Volume 1 |
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Abbassides Abd al Muttalib Abrahamic Abu Bacr Amalek Amalekites ancient Arabia authentic authority believe biography of Mahomet Bokhâri Cahtân Caliph camels caravans century character chief Christian collection Companions compilation copies Coran Coreish Cushites Cussai death descendants dition divine doubt dynasty early evidence expedition extant fabricated fact faith favour Hadhramaut hand Hârith Hâshim Himyar Himyarite Hîra Hishâmi historians Ibid Ibn Hishâm Ibn Ishâc Ibn Khallicân Idumea Ishmael Islam Jewish Jews Joktan Kaaba Kâtib al Wâckidi king latter legend Lord M. C. de Perceval Mahomet Mahometan tradition Mecca Medîna Moslem Mount Seir Muhammad Mundzir Nabatheans Najd narration narrative Nebaioth Nomân noticed Omar Ommeyads original Othmân party passages peninsula Petra possessed probably Prophet recited recorded Red Sea referred regarding reign revelation Roman Scriptures Sprenger Sprenger's Mohammed story Strabo supposed Sura Syria Tabari Taghlib thou tion trace traditionists verse Vide writing Yemen Zeid
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Page cxviii - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page cxix - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Page cxi - And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. 18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Page cxviii - And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
Page cxiii - And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan ; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. 7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
Page cxvii - Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Page cxxviii - Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
Page civ - To consider late historians like Abulfeda as authorities, and to suppose that an account gains in certainty, because it is mentioned by several of them, is highly uncritical; and if such a mistake is committed by an orientalist, we must accuse him of culpable ignorance in the history of Arabic literature."* Early writers Our early authors were, besides, in an incomparably better alone autho- ... . ritntive.
Page xliii - Mohammed, p. 68, note 3, alone, and every day produced new divisions among the professors of Islam, opened up a wide field for fabrication and distortion. There was nothing easier, when required to defend any religious or political system, than to appeal to an oral tradition of the Prophet. The nature of these so-called traditions, and the manner in which the name of Mahomet was abused to support all possible...
Page cxii - Mibsam, and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa; Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah : these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments ; twelve princes according to their nations.