Islam in English LiteratureCaravan Books, 1977 - 275 pages |
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Page xii
... Arabic - speaking world . In an appendix I have placed a chronology of events in the life of Muḥammad and in the early history of Islam . The spelling of Arabic words calls for some explanation . The Ärabic alphabet contains several ...
... Arabic - speaking world . In an appendix I have placed a chronology of events in the life of Muḥammad and in the early history of Islam . The spelling of Arabic words calls for some explanation . The Ärabic alphabet contains several ...
Page 34
... Arabic , Hebrew , Chaldean , Greek , Latin , French , and English — helped to make Prideaux's Life a weighty authority with other writers . He possessed in translation a number of standard Arabic works on the life of Muḥammad , and ...
... Arabic , Hebrew , Chaldean , Greek , Latin , French , and English — helped to make Prideaux's Life a weighty authority with other writers . He possessed in translation a number of standard Arabic works on the life of Muḥammad , and ...
Page 68
... Arabic , employing a Syrian of Damascus and a Greek of Aleppo for that purpose . Sale studied Arabic with them , and , in 1726 , became corrector of the Arabic text for the Society . His trans- lation of the Qur'ān appeared in 1734. No ...
... Arabic , employing a Syrian of Damascus and a Greek of Aleppo for that purpose . Sale studied Arabic with them , and , in 1726 , became corrector of the Arabic text for the Society . His trans- lation of the Qur'ān appeared in 1734. No ...
Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 20 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 58 |
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