The Koran: or Alcoran of Mohammed Enriched with Numerous Explanatory Notes Various Readings from Savary’s Version of the Koran and a Valuable Preliminary Discourse on the Religious and Political Condition of the Arabs Before the Days of Mohammed

The portion of the history which was supplied by Sale comprises The Introduction containing the Cosmogony or Creation of the World ; " and the whole or nearly the whole of the succeeding chapter which traces the narrative of events from the creation to the god. [...] The tribe of Ad were descended from Ad the son of Aws 9 the son of Aram ' the son of Sem the son of Noah who after the confusion of tongues settled in al Ahkaf or the winding sands in the province of Hadramaut where his posterity greatly multiplied. [...] digious stature the largest being a hundred cubits high and the least sixty; which extraordinary size they pretend to prove by the testimony of the Koran.' The tribe of Thamild were the posterity of Thamfid the son of Gather' - the son of Aram who falling into idolatry the prophet Saleh was sent to bring them back to the worship of the true God This prophet lived between the time of Hid and [...] The tribe of Amalek were descended from Amalek the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau 8 though some of the oriental authors say A malek was the son of Ham the son of Noah 9 and others the son of Azd the son of Sem.' The posterity of this person rendered themselves very powerful ' and before the time of Joseph conquered the lower Egypt under their king Walid the first who took the name of Pharaoh as [...] The province of Yaman or the better part of it particularly the provinces of Saba and Hadramaut was governed by princes of the tribe of Hamyar though at length the kingdom was translated to the descedants of Cahlan his brother who yet retained the title of king of Ilamyar and had all of them the general title of Tobba which signifies successor and was affected to this race of princes as