The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... kings , were thus chronicled . It is also highly probable that at the time of the Mahometan conquest , there were some of the inhabitants alive , versed in decyphering the Himyar alpha- bet , and able to communicate the meaning of the ...
... kings , were thus chronicled . It is also highly probable that at the time of the Mahometan conquest , there were some of the inhabitants alive , versed in decyphering the Himyar alpha- bet , and able to communicate the meaning of the ...
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... king is said to have introduced the Himyar tongue into Yemen , upon the Arabic , as if the Arabic had been the ادخل اللغة الحميرية على اللغة العربية vernacular . But the expression may refer to the court language of Mâreb , which ...
... king is said to have introduced the Himyar tongue into Yemen , upon the Arabic , as if the Arabic had been the ادخل اللغة الحميرية على اللغة العربية vernacular . But the expression may refer to the court language of Mâreb , which ...
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... king- doms which had fallen under princes of the Cahlân stock . * The successor of Harith was ESSAB DZU - L - CARNAIN , or " the Horned . " The surname is that which the Arabs accord to Alexander the Great , and which is connected in ...
... king- doms which had fallen under princes of the Cahlân stock . * The successor of Harith was ESSAB DZU - L - CARNAIN , or " the Horned . " The surname is that which the Arabs accord to Alexander the Great , and which is connected in ...
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... King of Persia , attacked him , but was taken prisoner ; he was sub- sequently liberated by the famous Rustam , and returned to his kingdom , after marrying the daughter of Dzu - l - Adzâr . * M. C. de Perceval has ingeniously surmised ...
... King of Persia , attacked him , but was taken prisoner ; he was sub- sequently liberated by the famous Rustam , and returned to his kingdom , after marrying the daughter of Dzu - l - Adzâr . * M. C. de Perceval has ingeniously surmised ...
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... king both his dream and its signification . Thou sawest a flame burst forth from the dark- ness ; and it fell upon the land of Tihâma , and devoured every living thing . This was the Abyssinians , who , they foretold , would overrun ...
... king both his dream and its signification . Thou sawest a flame burst forth from the dark- ness ; and it fell upon the land of Tihâma , and devoured every living thing . This was the Abyssinians , who , they foretold , would overrun ...
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