The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... letters are all separate , and the words disjoined by a vertical bar . ( Journal Asiatique , December , 1838 , and September and October , 1845 - M . C. de Perceval , Vol . I. p . 79. ) The Mahometans do not appear to have known much of ...
... letters are all separate , and the words disjoined by a vertical bar . ( Journal Asiatique , December , 1838 , and September and October , 1845 - M . C. de Perceval , Vol . I. p . 79. ) The Mahometans do not appear to have known much of ...
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... letter of the Bishop Simeon , stating that tidings of the conquest of Najrân reached the king of Hira early in Feb. 524 : it therefore occurred about the close of 523 . Allowing time for the intervening events and preparations , the ...
... letter of the Bishop Simeon , stating that tidings of the conquest of Najrân reached the king of Hira early in Feb. 524 : it therefore occurred about the close of 523 . Allowing time for the intervening events and preparations , the ...
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... letters . Arab poets frequented the court of Hîra , and their effusions were prized and preserved . Thus there was abundant opportunity , both of public archive and of poetical record ; and as these were conveyed down to the era of ...
... letters . Arab poets frequented the court of Hîra , and their effusions were prized and preserved . Thus there was abundant opportunity , both of public archive and of poetical record ; and as these were conveyed down to the era of ...
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... letter noticed above from the Jewish prince of Yemen , Dzu Nowâs , giving tidings of the butchery of the Christians in Najrân , and inviting him to follow his example . After causing the letter to be read aloud to the army , in which ...
... letter noticed above from the Jewish prince of Yemen , Dzu Nowâs , giving tidings of the butchery of the Christians in Najrân , and inviting him to follow his example . After causing the letter to be read aloud to the army , in which ...
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... letters . And , haply , we breathe for him a silent or uttered prayer , that the career on which he is just entering may be a career of upright- ness and honor , or address him in our heart with a sentiment like that of the Eastern poet ...
... letters . And , haply , we breathe for him a silent or uttered prayer , that the career on which he is just entering may be a career of upright- ness and honor , or address him in our heart with a sentiment like that of the Eastern poet ...
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