xxxvi .-- xxxviii.) * Note: (Academ.

des Inscript.

I.p.

295) has observed that the text of the seveth Sura implies that Mahomet could read, the tradition alone denies it, and, according to Dr.Weil, (p.

46,) there is another reading of the tradition, that "he could not read well." Dr.Weil is not quite so successful in explaining away Sura xxix.