The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... land to the east of the Dead Sea , sweep south to Mount Sinai , and thence to the straits of Bâb al Mandeb , where they dip into the Indian Ocean , to re - appear on the shores of Africa . The range follows closely the line of the coast ...
... land to the east of the Dead Sea , sweep south to Mount Sinai , and thence to the straits of Bâb al Mandeb , where they dip into the Indian Ocean , to re - appear on the shores of Africa . The range follows closely the line of the coast ...
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... land of Tihâma , and devoured every living thing . This was the Abyssinians , who , they foretold , would overrun Yemen from Aden to Najrân , and rule for above seventy years ; after that , they would be overthrown , and would be ...
... land of Tihâma , and devoured every living thing . This was the Abyssinians , who , they foretold , would overrun Yemen from Aden to Najrân , and rule for above seventy years ; after that , they would be overthrown , and would be ...
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... land with an ut- ter disorganization . Mundzir rejected the abominable doctrine ; and in the year 518 A. D. , his domains were assigned to the Arab Hârith . But principles so abhorrent from human nature could not long hold their ground ...
... land with an ut- ter disorganization . Mundzir rejected the abominable doctrine ; and in the year 518 A. D. , his domains were assigned to the Arab Hârith . But principles so abhorrent from human nature could not long hold their ground ...
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... land . Accordingly , at an appointed festival , the mother of Amr , a warrior - poet of the Bani Taghlib , was invited into the tent of the prince's mother , who sought to entrap her into the apparently insignificant act of handing her ...
... land . Accordingly , at an appointed festival , the mother of Amr , a warrior - poet of the Bani Taghlib , was invited into the tent of the prince's mother , who sought to entrap her into the apparently insignificant act of handing her ...
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... land . The term was equivocal , and Nomân was represented to have spoken of the females of Persia as cows . The wrath of Kesra fell upon his ungallant vassal , and he fled from Hîra . After vainly wan- dering among the Arab tribes , and ...
... land . The term was equivocal , and Nomân was represented to have spoken of the females of Persia as cows . The wrath of Kesra fell upon his ungallant vassal , and he fled from Hîra . After vainly wan- dering among the Arab tribes , and ...
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