The Faith of Islam

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Trübner, 1880 - 269 pages

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Page 159 - Praise be to Him who carried His servant "by night from the sacred temple to the temple that is more remote, whose precincts we have blessed, that we might show him some of our signs! For He is the Hearer, the Seer." And again: "And remember we said to thee, verily, thy Lord is round about mankind; we ordained the vision which we showed thee.
Page 100 - Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 4 - THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON (Son of Sennacherib), KING OF ASSYRIA, BC 681-668. Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets in the British Museum Collection ; together with...
Page 119 - Say there is one God alone — God the eternal ; He begetteth not and He is not begotten, And there is none like unto him.
Page 72 - Vol. II., containing Book II.. with additional Notes and Index of Names. Demy 8vo. pp. 504, cloth. 18s. Vol. III. Demy 8vo. pp. v. and 371, cloth. 1872. 15s. Vol. IV. Demy 8vo. pp. viii. and 432. 1873. 18».
Page 63 - Jataka (The) ; together with its Commentary. Being Tales of the Anterior Birth of Gotama Buddha. For the first time Edited in the original Pali by V. FAUSBOLL. Vol. I. Demy Svo. cloth, pp. 512. 1877. 28s. Vol. II., cloth, pp. 452. 1879. 28s. For Translation see under "Buddhist Birth Stories.
Page 71 - A DICTIONARY, SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH, extended and improved from the Second Edition of the Dictionary of Professor HH WILSON, with his sanction and concurrence.
Page 32 - By the Rev. Canon Callaway, MD Vol. I., 8vo, pp. xiv. and 378, cloth. 1868. 16s. , CALLAWAY.— THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF THE AMAZULU. Part I. — Unkulunkulu ; or, The Tradition of Creation as existing among the Amazulu and other Tribes of South Africa, in their own words, with a Translation into English, and Notes. By the Rev. Canon...
Page 28 - Dr. Theol., Professor of the History of Religions in the University of Leiden. Translated from the Dutch by J. ESTLIN CARPENTER, MA...
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