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Page xxxi
... Islám , like Judaism and Christianity , possesses a definite founder and originator , not lost in cloudy traditional antiquity , but clearly presented in the full light of history , as claiming to be the authorised promulgator of a ...
... Islám , like Judaism and Christianity , possesses a definite founder and originator , not lost in cloudy traditional antiquity , but clearly presented in the full light of history , as claiming to be the authorised promulgator of a ...
Page xxxii
... Islám in our country was accompanied by its usual igno- rance and obtusity of intellect , then the demon- οὐ διαγινώσκομεν · ἐπεὰν δὲ παρατρίψωμεν ἄλλῳ χρυσῷ , δια- γινώσκομεν τὸν ἀμείνῳ . — Herod . lib . ii . strations of Musalmán ...
... Islám in our country was accompanied by its usual igno- rance and obtusity of intellect , then the demon- οὐ διαγινώσκομεν · ἐπεὰν δὲ παρατρίψωμεν ἄλλῳ χρυσῷ , δια- γινώσκομεν τὸν ἀμείνῳ . — Herod . lib . ii . strations of Musalmán ...
Page xxxiv
... Islám may be of use therefore in enabling us to contrast it with Christianity . But , in pursuing this subject , many are deterred by the tediousness and dulness of the Korán . Few celebrated compositions exhibit more unimaginative ...
... Islám may be of use therefore in enabling us to contrast it with Christianity . But , in pursuing this subject , many are deterred by the tediousness and dulness of the Korán . Few celebrated compositions exhibit more unimaginative ...
Page xxxv
... Islám will again be re - inforced and re - animated by the accession of barbarian hordes of converts and conquerors ; yet , when the waning crescent shall set , ( to yield , we trust , to a pure sun , which warms and enlightens too ...
... Islám will again be re - inforced and re - animated by the accession of barbarian hordes of converts and conquerors ; yet , when the waning crescent shall set , ( to yield , we trust , to a pure sun , which warms and enlightens too ...
Page xxxvi
... Islám has engrafted ; the institutions it has es- tablished ; the laws it has deeply enrooted ; the noble language it has consecrated ; will still connect the system of Muhammadanism with the most important and interesting subjects of ...
... Islám has engrafted ; the institutions it has es- tablished ; the laws it has deeply enrooted ; the noble language it has consecrated ; will still connect the system of Muhammadanism with the most important and interesting subjects of ...
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