Arabic authors : a manual of Arabian history and literature / by F.F. Arbuthnot.

  • Arbuthnot, F. F.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Arabic authors : a manual of Arabian history and literature / by F.F. Arbuthnot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE traveller; Abul Feda, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Kesir, Ibn Hajar, Ibn Arabshah—all historians; Firuza- badi, Taki-uddin of Fez, Al-Makrisi, Sayuti, Ibn Kamal Pasha, Abu Sa’ud the mufti, Ibrahim of Aleppo, Birgeli, Abul Khair; celebrated caligrapbers, past aud present, Haji Khalfa, Muhammad al Amin of Damascus, Makkari. Decline of Arabic literature : its present form. About the printing-presses of Arabic works at various places . . .23 CHAPTER III. ABOUT MUHAMMAD. A complete summary of the details of bis life, from his birth to bis death.—Remarks upon him as a reformer, preacher, and apostle.—The Hanyfs.—Muhammad’s early idea of establishing one religion for the Jews, Christians, and Arabs.—His long struggle with the Koraish.—His failure at Mecca.—His success at Madinah.—Adapts his views to the manners and cus- toms of the Arabs only.—The reason of his many marriages.—His love of women.—About the Koran. —Not collected and arranged until after his death.— Comparison of the Koran with the Old and New Testaments.—Superiority of our Bible.—Description of it by ‘ II Secolo.’—Rev. Mr. Badger’s description of the Koran.—Written in the purest Arabic, and defies competition.—Muhammad and Moses, Jesus and Buddha.—Remarks about Buddhism and Chris- tianity.—Moses and Muhammad the founders of two nationalities. — Abraham the father of the Jewish, Christian, and Muhammadan religions.— Renan’s description of the gods of the Jews.— Joseph.—The Twelve Tribes.—Appearance of Moses as a liberator and organizer.—The reasons of his wanderings in the desert.—What the Jews owed to Moses, and the Arabs to Muhammad.—The latter as a military leader.—Resemblance of the warlike