A journey from Aleppo to Damascus. With a description of those two capital cities, and the neighbouring parts of Syria : to which is added, An account of the Maronites inhabiting Mount Libanus ... also The surprising adventures of Mostafa, a Turk ... the whole illustrated with notes and a map.

  • Green, John, -1757.
Date:
1736
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Credit: A journey from Aleppo to Damascus. With a description of those two capital cities, and the neighbouring parts of Syria : to which is added, An account of the Maronites inhabiting Mount Libanus ... also The surprising adventures of Mostafa, a Turk ... the whole illustrated with notes and a map. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Turks believe their Prophet was born there ; and hence comes that great Vene¬ ration they have for it. When they fpeak of it, they always give it the Name of the Magnificent (b). At their Prayers, which they fay fe- veral times a Day, they never fail, where- ever they be, to turn their Faces towards that City. They pretend it ftands on the fame Spot where Abraham built the firft Houfe. They call that Mesku, the Square Houfc (c), having a Tradition, that Abraham's Houfe was of that Figure. The Mesku is handfome and large, a- dorned with rich Paintings and Gildings, as well as with the Prefents which the Mohammedans fend thither in Honour of t* it. Above the Dome are erefted two Tow- ers (J), which difcover the City of Mecca, and its Mesku, a far off. Near the lat- * Vide GoL Not. in Alferg. р. 98, &c. t Pit’s Pilg. to Mecca, с. 7. p.i 17 **D’herb Brbl. Ori¬ ent, p.569 Art. Mec¬ ca. ter, from the Mountain Arafdt, three Miles to the North, at the Expence ol the Wife of Soleimdn, SoJtan of the Turks. Its Diftance from the Sea is forty Arabian Miles*. Pits makes it not one Day’s Journey from Jidda, the nearell Sea Port f. (b) In Arabic Moadhemab, that is, the Great and Mag¬ nificent ,• as the Tide of Muna-werab, or Illuftrious, is given to Medinab **. (c) The Author confounds the Mesku, or Masjed, with the Square Houfe, or Kaabab, to ufe the Arabic Name, which ftands in the middle of it. This Square Houfe is alfo called, Beito'llah, or, The Houfe of God. {d) The Temple is not covered with a Dome, but is open in the middle, and has four Towers, or Min drabs, one at each Corner