Volume 1

The history of the Saracens containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hasan, Moawiyah I. Yezid I. Moawiyah II. Abdolla, Merwan I. and Abdolmelick, the immediate succesors of Mahomet ; giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, & c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. Illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people / Collected from the most authentic Arabick authors, especially mss. not hitherto publish'd in any European language by Simon Ockley.

  • Simon Ockley
Date:
1757
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Credit: The history of the Saracens containing the lives of Abubeker, Omar, Othman, Ali, Hasan, Moawiyah I. Yezid I. Moawiyah II. Abdolla, Merwan I. and Abdolmelick, the immediate succesors of Mahomet ; giving an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, & c. particularly those of Aleppo, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. Illustrating the religion, rites, customs, and manner of living of that warlike people / Collected from the most authentic Arabick authors, especially mss. not hitherto publish'd in any European language by Simon Ockley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the ninth year of the Hejira, Mabomet fent | Abubeker to Mecca, to perform the pilgrimage, and ~ facrifice twenty camels on his account. After him, he fent 4: to publith the ninth chapter of the /- coran, which, though fo placed in the prefent con-— fufed copy, 1s generally fuppofed to be the laft that. was revealed; it is called Barat, or Immunity ; the purport of it is, that the a/ffoczators* with whomMa- bomet had made a treaty, were obliged, after four months liberty of confcience, to embrace J/am, or _ pay tribute ; the command is when tho/e holy months are expired, kill the idolaters wherever ye fhall find them; afterwards come thefe words, zf they repent and obferve the times of prayer and give alms they are to be looked upon as your brethren in religion >’ here we find the impoftor, who at firft pretended only to perfuade, now he thought himfelf fufh- a V.p.27. b Gagnier, Not. in bw] Fedam, p. 130 ie ais he
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