Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
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Page 133
... early part of the century piracy on the Mediterran- ean received its death blow . Pirate strongholds were repeatedly at- tacked by European powers ; and the newly - built navy of the United States gave a good account of itself in the ...
... early part of the century piracy on the Mediterran- ean received its death blow . Pirate strongholds were repeatedly at- tacked by European powers ; and the newly - built navy of the United States gave a good account of itself in the ...
Page 193
... early poems , of Islamic material . The forgivable anachronism of " hundreds . of crescents " on the roofs of Baghdad several centuries before the Turks came into power does not detract from the charm of the love- liest tribute to the ...
... early poems , of Islamic material . The forgivable anachronism of " hundreds . of crescents " on the roofs of Baghdad several centuries before the Turks came into power does not detract from the charm of the love- liest tribute to the ...
Page 231
... early type of book which studied the early state of the text of the Koran before the canoniza- tion of the text by ' Uthman . The translation of this work may be regarded as a step toward the establishment of the primitive text of the ...
... early type of book which studied the early state of the text of the Koran before the canoniza- tion of the text by ' Uthman . The translation of this work may be regarded as a step toward the establishment of the primitive text of the ...
Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 54 |
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