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The Life of Mahomet. From Original Sources

1878

The sides bounded by the Red Sea on the one hand and by the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates on the other are the longest ; while the southern side protracted towards the Strait of Ormuz and washed by the Indian Ocean is broader than the northern of which the Syrian confine is narowed by the westerly bend of the Euphrates. [...] To the west in the Syrian desert with their capital at Palmyra was the dynasty of the Gliassimides ; and to the east on the banks of the Euphrates the kingdom of Hira ; the former as a rule adhered to the Roman the latter to the Persian empire. [...] V The dynasty of Palmyra and the western tribes embraced Christianity in the time of Constantine ; to the east of the desert the feligion was later of gaining ground and indeed was not adopted by the court of Hira till near the entl of the sixth cetury. [...] Similarly familiar were the stories of the Fall of man the Flood the destrution of the cities of the plain &c.—so that the was an extensive substratum of elle ideas and unwrought knowledge or conception bordering upon the spiritual ready to the hand of Mahomet. [...] The former prompted the individual by the desire of upholding the name and influence of his clan to a compliance with the general wish ; the latter provided for the respect of private right by the unrelenting pursuit of the injurer.
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Pages
661
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141966
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii William Muir view
Introduction
i-xxix unknown view
Chapter I The Birth and Childhood of Mahomet
1-12 unknown view
Chapter II From the Youth of Mahomet to his Fortieth Year
13-37 unknown view
Chapter III The Belief of Mahomet in his Own Inspiration
38-59 unknown view
Chapter IV Extension of Islam and Early Converts from the Assumption By Mahomet of the Prophetical Office to the Date of the First Emigration to Abyssinia
60-85 unknown view
Chapter V From the Fifth to the Tenth year of the Mission of Mahomet
86-108 unknown view
Chapter VI Visit to Tayif. Islam Planted at Medina
109-124 unknown view
Chapter VII Spread of Islam at Medina . The Hegira or Flight to that City
125-174 unknown view
Chapter VIII Arrival at Medina. Building of the Mosoue
175-187 unknown view
Chapter IX State of Parties at Medina. First two years of Mahomet’s Residence there
188-195 unknown view
Chapter X Religious Institutions and Miscellaneous Events during the First and Second years of the Hegira
196-210 unknown view
Chapter XI Hostilities between Medina and Mecca
211-222 unknown view
Chapter XII
223-246 unknown view
Chapter XIII The Year Following the Battle of Bedr
247-260 unknown view
Chapter XIV The Battle of Ohod
261-283 unknown view
Chapter XV From the Battle of Ohod to the Expulsion of the Bani Nadhir
284-295 unknown view
Chapter XVI The Fourth and Fifth years of the Hegira
296-316 unknown view
Chapter XVII Siege of Medina and Massacre of the Bani Coreitza
317-353 unknown view
Chapter XVIII Sixth year of the Hegira
354-365 unknown view
Chapter XIX Pilgrimage to Al Hodeibia
366-381 unknown view
Chapter XX Embassies to Various Sovereigns and Princes
382-387 unknown view
Chapter XXI The Conquest of Kheibar
388-399 unknown view
Chapter XXII Pilgrimage to Mecca
400-405 unknown view
Chapter XXIII Battle of Muta and Other Events in the First Eight
406-413 unknown view
Chapter XXIV The Conquest of Mecca
414-427 unknown view
Chapter XXV The Battle of Honein and Siege of Tayif
428-439 unknown view
Chapter XXVI Mary the Coptic Maid and her Son Ibrahim
440-445 unknown view
Chapter XXVII Embassies To Medina
446-453 unknown view
Chapter XXVIII Campaign of Tabuk and Other Events in the Second Half of the Ninth year of the Hegira
454-464 unknown view
Chapter XXIX Embassy from Tayif and Pilgrimage of Abu Bakr
465-470 unknown view
Chapter XXX Embassies of Submission Received at Medina
471-480 unknown view
Chapter XXXI The Farewell Pilgrimage
481-488 unknown view
Chapter XXXII The Pretenders Who Rose up against Mahomet
489-492 unknown view
Chapter XXXIII Sickness and Death of Mahomet
493-509 unknown view
Chapter XXXIV The Events Which Followed on the Death of Mahomet
510-516 unknown view
Chapter XXXV The Burial of Mahomet
517-519 unknown view
Chapter XXXVI Campaign of Osama on the Syrian Border Concluding Observations
520-522 unknown view
Chapter XXXVII The Person and Character of Mahomet
523-548 unknown view
Appendix
549-614 unknown view
Index
615-624 unknown view

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