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CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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Yet the Koran without naming either heaven, or Jerusalem, or Mecca, has only dropped a mysterious hint: Laus illi qui transtulit servum suum ab oratorio Haram ad oratorium remotissimum, (Koran, c.

17, v.

1; in Maracci, tom.ii.p.

407; for Sale's version is more licentious.) A slender basis for the aerial structure of tradition.] [Footnote 99: In the prophetic style, which uses the present or past for the future, Mahomet had said, Appropinquavit hora, et scissa est luna, (Koran, c.

54, v.


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