The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens. : with Notices of the History of Islamism and of ArabiaT. Tegg, 1840 - 404 pages |
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... according to the creed of the Mahometans , Jesus is expected to descend to earth , to embrace the religion of Mahomet , to slay Antichrist , and to reign with his saints . " The same authority affirms , " that the Mahometans are nearer ...
... according to the creed of the Mahometans , Jesus is expected to descend to earth , to embrace the religion of Mahomet , to slay Antichrist , and to reign with his saints . " The same authority affirms , " that the Mahometans are nearer ...
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... according to Pococke , this dynasty continued ; twenty - nine kings having successively reigned about seventy years each . He gives the names , which are here omitted , as nothing more is known concerning them . The natives of this ...
... according to Pococke , this dynasty continued ; twenty - nine kings having successively reigned about seventy years each . He gives the names , which are here omitted , as nothing more is known concerning them . The natives of this ...
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... according to the manners of the times , also becomes his wife . From this marriage Ishmael sprung ; but such was the envy and jealousy with which Hagar was re- garded , that she was at length compelled to leave the patriarch's house ...
... according to the manners of the times , also becomes his wife . From this marriage Ishmael sprung ; but such was the envy and jealousy with which Hagar was re- garded , that she was at length compelled to leave the patriarch's house ...
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... according to their nations . " Where they respec- tively settled , whether they continued separate for any number of ages , and to what degree , it is im- possible now to ascertain . The remotest history of each of them , if it could be ...
... according to their nations . " Where they respec- tively settled , whether they continued separate for any number of ages , and to what degree , it is im- possible now to ascertain . The remotest history of each of them , if it could be ...
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... according to Mahometan writers , was the very spot still held as peculiarly sacred , where the temple stands at Mecca , and where Ishmael was laid by his mother to die . This temple is said to have been originally conse- crated to ...
... according to Mahometan writers , was the very spot still held as peculiarly sacred , where the temple stands at Mecca , and where Ishmael was laid by his mother to die . This temple is said to have been originally conse- crated to ...
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Page 350 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Page 342 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 334 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Page 342 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Page 326 - And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand ; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Page 342 - And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle ; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men: and they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions : And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Page 342 - And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Page 119 - When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them; and bind them in bonds: and either give them a free dismission afterward, or exact a ransom; until the war shall have laid down its arms.
Page 326 - Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" And he said unto me, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Page 94 - Praise be unto him, who transported his servant by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem,1 the circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show him some of our signs ; for God is he who heareth and seeth.