History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.
the foundations of Turkey, and preparing the way for a religious, moral and social regeneration and transformation of the East. ...
1818), Burckhardt in 1814, Burton in 1852, Maltzan in 1862, Keane in 1880—have visited it in Mussulman disguise, and at the risk ...
Arabia had at the time when Mohammed appeared, all the elements for a wild, warlike, eclectic religion like the one which he est ...
§ 42. Life and Character of Mohammed. Mohammed, an unschooled, self-taught, semi-barbarous son of nature, of noble birth, handso ...
and slaves; but he afterwards gloried in it by appealing to the example of Moses and David, and said that God never calls a prop ...
In his fortieth year (a.d. 610), he received the call of Gabriel, the archangel at the right hand of God, who announced the birt ...
In the tenth year of the Hegira, the prophet made his last pilgrimage to Mecca at the head of forty thousand Moslems, instructed ...
The calmer judgment of recent historians inclines to the belief that he combined the good and bad qualities of an Oriental chief ...
during the last two years of his life. When he heard of a pretty woman, says Sprenger, he asked her hand, but was occasionally r ...
Islâm, slavery, and death; Jews and Christians were allowed to purchase a limited toleration by the payment of tribute, but were ...
from the faith is also treason to the state, and merits the severest punishment in this world, as well as everlasting damnation ...
distinguish two kinds of revelations: those which were literally delivered as spoken by the angel (called Wahee Matloo, or the w ...
difference between the Suras of the earlier, middle, and later periods. In the earlier, the poetic, wild, and rhapsodical elemen ...
phraseology—as "giving alms to be seen of men," "none forgiveth sins but God only"—may be derived from personal intercourse and ...
parlance; its sesquipedalia verba, with their crowd of prefixes and affixes, each of them affirming its own position, while cons ...
Nor they that deviate! Amen.^179 "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds! The ...
§ 45. The Mohammedan Religion. lslâm is not a new religion, nor can we expect a new one after the appearance of that religion wh ...
a God who has revealed himself through chosen messengers, angelic and human. Adam, Noah, Abraham Moses, and Jesus are his chief ...
apostle that shall come after me whose name shall be Ahmed!"^193 Thus the promise of the Holy Ghost, "the other Paraclete," (Joh ...
vices, which are said to prevail to a fearful extent among Mohammedans, as they did among the ancient heathen.^198 In nothing is ...
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