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A Geographical History of the Qur’an

1936

It took the Qur'an some thirteen years to prepare the ground and clear up the atmophere of the country and it wag only in the latter half of the period of Prophet's mission that the verses of the Qur'an bEigan to be appreciated by the bulk of the people. [...] After a year spent in Egypt and the Sinai peninsula the party reached Jidda towards the end of 1762 and after a short stay sailed on to Lohaia in the north of Yemen the exploration of which formed the principal object of the expedition; thence travelling through the Tehama or lowlands Niebuhr and his compations visited the towns of Bet-el-fakih Zubed and Mokha then the great port for the cof [...] This was at last visited in 1893 by L. Hirsch under the protection of the Sultan of Mukalla the head of the Kaki family and practically ruler of all Hadramut with the exception of the towns of Saiyun and Tarim which belong to the Kathiri tribe. [...] Interesting archaeological dicoveries were made and a valuable topographical survey was carried out covering the whole Midian coast from the head of the gulf of Akaba to the mouth of Wadi Hamd " and including both the Tehama range and the Hisma valley behind it while the impltance of the "Wadi Hamd " and the extent of the area drained by its tributaries was for the first time brought to lig [...] Palgrave says little of the desert part of the journey or of its Bedouin inhabitants but much of the fertility of the Oases and of the civility of the townsmen; and like other travellers in Nejd he speaks in enthusiasm of its bright exhilarating climate at Riad.
philosophy religion
Pages
175
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142944
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-12 Syed Nadvi view
Introduction
13-48 Syed Nadvi view
Book I Geography of Arabia
49-i Syed Nadvi view
Book II The Peoples of the Qur’an
79-120 Syed Nadvi view
Book III The Peoples of the Qur’an—(Continued)
121-i Syed Nadvi view
Index
153-161 Syed Nadvi view
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i-vii Syed Nadvi view

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