p.
205.) The old Arabians likewise practised, post coitum, the rite of ablution, (Herodot.l.i.c.

80,) which is sanctified by the Mahometan law, (Reland, p.

75, &c., Chardin, or rather the Mollah of Shah Abbas, tom.iv.p.71, &c.)] [Footnote 54: The Mahometan doctors are not fond of the subject; yet they hold circumcision necessary to salvation, and even pretend that Mahomet was miraculously born without a foreskin, (Pocock, Specimen, p.
319, 320.

Sale's Preliminary Discourse, p.

106, 107.)].