The History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing a Description of the Country; An Account of Its Inhabitants, Antiquities, Political Condition, and Early Commerce; The Life and Religion of Mohammed; The Conquests, Arts, and Literature of
Excerpt from The History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing a Description of the Country; An Account of Its Inhabitants, Antiquities, Political Condition, and Early Commerce; The Life and Religion of Mohammed; The Conquests, Arts, and Literature of the Saracens Shed tokens of imperial favour; and in return, these appy scholars laboured to the utmost of their power in extolling the gl of their generous patron, and taste y collecting and presenting to rare and curious ioductions of orio ental genius. ...
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Excerpt from The History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing a Description of the Country; An Account of Its Inhabitants, Antiquities, Political Condition, and Early Commerce; The Life and Religion of Mohammed; The Conquests, Arts, and Literature of the Saracens Shed tokens of imperial favour; and in return, these appy scholars laboured to the utmost of their power in extolling the gl of their generous patron, and taste y collecting and presenting to rare and curious ioductions of orio ental genius. Notwithstanding 's many eminent virtues and endowments, his panegyrists complain that he evinced a favourable disposition to that heretical doctrine of the Motazalites which denies to the Korea the authority of a divine revelation; of his life were spent in enforcing on his subjects, by severe persecution, the acknow led out that it was of human origin. His capital his army he threw into commotion, by com mandin them to assume the green tmiform instead of the b ack, the symbol of his family. His military talents, which were great, found exercise in making incursions against the Greeks, or in quelling insur rections in Persia, Arabia, and various parts of his dominions; for in one year not fewer than four usurpers made their ap in Syna, Pelee. 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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