Excerpt from The Life of Mahomet: From Original Sources We shall now notice the few points at which in ancient times Arabia touched the outer world. The northern province, stretch ing from Syria to the Euphrates, was cccupied(according to native tradition) in the second century, by some of those tribes which about that time had emigrated from the south; and of them we frequently hear in the later annals of the Roman em pire. To the west, in the Syrian desert, with their capital at Palmyra, was the dynasty of the Ghasdnides ...
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Excerpt from The Life of Mahomet: From Original Sources We shall now notice the few points at which in ancient times Arabia touched the outer world. The northern province, stretch ing from Syria to the Euphrates, was cccupied(according to native tradition) in the second century, by some of those tribes which about that time had emigrated from the south; and of them we frequently hear in the later annals of the Roman em pire. To the west, in the Syrian desert, with their capital at Palmyra, was the dynasty of the Ghasdnides; and to the out, on the banks of the Euphrates, the kingdom of Him; the former, as a rule, adhered to the Romsn, the latter to the Persian, empire. At some points we can even identify the heroes of Arab story with those of western history. Thus, Odzeina and Zebba of Tadmor are without doubt the Odenathus and Zenobia of Palmyra. In the marvellous tales of Zebba, her beauty, wealth, and knowledge of many languages, and her capture at the tunnel which she had constructed under the Euphrates, we can dimly read the story of Zenobia, her splendid reign, her rebellion and defence of Palmyra, and her seizure by the Romans as she en deavoured to escape across the same river. The princes of Hira, again, are often mentioned by the Greek and Roman historians, in the wars of the fifth and sixth centuries, as adherents of the Persian cause. Suddenly as a thundercloud their troops would darken some fated spot, and sweep in their train devastation, captivity, and death; as suddenly would they disappear, scorn ing pursuit, and leave no trace behind but m their ravages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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