The Calcutta Review, Volume 21University of Calcutta, 1853 |
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... tribes and States , from the earliest glimmerings of Mahometan tradition , to the period when the whole were united under the banner of Islam . With incon- ceivable labour , he has thrown together the multitudinous and often discrepant ...
... tribes and States , from the earliest glimmerings of Mahometan tradition , to the period when the whole were united under the banner of Islam . With incon- ceivable labour , he has thrown together the multitudinous and often discrepant ...
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... tribes of Central Arabia ; and , lastly , of Medina . The third volume resumes the history of Mahomet , and brings down the progress of Islam to the Caliphate of Omar , and the submission of all the Arab tribes . The work thus exhausts ...
... tribes of Central Arabia ; and , lastly , of Medina . The third volume resumes the history of Mahomet , and brings down the progress of Islam to the Caliphate of Omar , and the submission of all the Arab tribes . The work thus exhausts ...
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contested between the roving tribes of Arabia , and the sedentary inhabitants of Syria . The southern parallel is the shore washed by the Indian Ocean . The length of this parallelogram lies diagonally across the meridian ; and it is ...
contested between the roving tribes of Arabia , and the sedentary inhabitants of Syria . The southern parallel is the shore washed by the Indian Ocean . The length of this parallelogram lies diagonally across the meridian ; and it is ...
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... tribes ; * and for this object , we are forced back upon the native tradition of Arabia . In a former paper in this Review the nature of Arab tradition has been discussed , and it has been shown that as regards genealogical and phylar ...
... tribes ; * and for this object , we are forced back upon the native tradition of Arabia . In a former paper in this Review the nature of Arab tradition has been discussed , and it has been shown that as regards genealogical and phylar ...
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... tribes . The three words are different forms of the same word . Yárôb , the name of Cahtân's son , is from the same source . The Arabs may either be really called after an historical character so named ; or what is likelier , the charac ...
... tribes . The three words are different forms of the same word . Yárôb , the name of Cahtân's son , is from the same source . The Arabs may either be really called after an historical character so named ; or what is likelier , the charac ...
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