The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline and Fall, from Original Sources |
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Abbas Abbasside Abd al Melik Abd al Rahman Abdallah Abu Bekr Abu Jafar Abu Muslim Abu Obeida Aly's amongst Amru apostate Arab Arabia army Ashath attack Ayesha Bagdad battle Bedouin blood brother Bussorah Byzantine Cacaa Caliph camel camp campaign captive Chaldæa chief Christian citizens column command Coran Coreish court cried Damascus death defeated desert despatched East Egypt empire enemy Euphrates faith fell field fight fled followed force garrison gathered governor Greeks Hajjaj hand hath Hira Hosein Ibn Zobeir Ikrima Irac Islam Khalid Kharejites Khorasan Kufa land leader Lord Mahomet Mamun Mecca Medain Medina Merwan Mesopotamia Mohajir Moseilama Moslem Mosque Mothanna Muavia numbers Omar Omar's Omeyyad Othman Persian pilgrimage prayer prisoners Prophet provinces rebel rebellion reign replied retired returned river Rustem sent slain sword Syria Taghlib Talha thee thou Toleiha took tribes troops victory Welid Yemama Yemen Yezid Ziad Zobeir
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Page 97 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 86 - Had Mahomet begun his career a conscious impostor, he never could have won the faith and friendship of a man who was not only sagacious and wise, but throughout his life simple, consistent, and sincere.
Page 212 - But Omar dreaded the sea, and wrote to consult Amru, who answered thus : — 'The sea is a boundless expanse, whereon great ships look like tiny specks; nought but the heavens above and the waters beneath ; when calm, the sailor's heart is broken ; when tempestuous, his senses reel. Trust it little, fear it much. Man at sea is an insect on a splinter, now engulfed, now scared to death.
Page 5 - ... wherein is treachery. The weaker amongst you shall be " as the stronger with me, until that I shall have redressed " his wrong ; and the stronger shall be as the weaker until, " if the Lord will, I shall have taken from him that which " he hath wrested. Leave not off to fight in the ways of " the Lord ; whosoever leaveth off, him verily shall the " Lord abase. Obey me as I obey the Lord and his " Prophet ; wherein I disobey, obey me not.
Page 198 - Simplicity and duty were his guiding principles, impartiality and devotion the leading features of his administration. Responsibility so weighed upon him that he was heard to exclaim, " O that my mother had not borne me ; would that I had been this stalk of grass instead ! " In early life of a fiery and impatient temper, he was known, even in the later days of the Prophet, as the stern advocate of vengeance. Ever ready to unsheathe the sword, it was he that at Bedr advised the prisoners to be all...
Page 323 - A thrill of horror," says Sir William Muir, " ran through the crowd when the gory head of the Prophet's grandson was cast at Ubeidallah's feet. Hard hearts were melted. As the Governor turned the head roughly over with his staff (though we must be slow to accept the tales of heartless insult multiplied by Shiya hate), an aged voice was heard to cry : ' Gently ! It is the Prophet's grandson. By the Lord ! I have seen those...
Page 324 - Caliphate had waned and disappeared. Who that has seen the wild and passionate grief with which, at each recurring anniversary, the Moslems of every land spend the live-long night, beating their breasts and vociferating unweariedly the frantic cry — Hasan Hosein ! Hasan Hoscin!
Page 212 - On receipt of this alarming account, Omar forbade Muavia to have anything to do with ships ; — " The Syrian sea, they tell me, is longer and broader " than the dry land, and is instant with the Lord, night " and day, seeking to swallow it up. How should I trust " my people on its accursed bosom ? Remember Ala.* 1 The campaign furnishes plentiful material for the romances of the pseudoWackidy and later writers.
Page 432 - With the rise of Persian influence," he adds (p. 432), "the roughness of Arab life was softened ; and there opened an era of culture, toleration, and scientific research. The practice of oral tradition was also giving place to recorded statement and historical narrative, — a change hastened by the scholarly tendencies introduced from the East. To the same source may be attributed the everincreasing laxity at Court of manners and morality ; and also those transcendental views that now...
Page 144 - Sahhara, the rock, sensible of the happiness of bearing the holy burden, depressed itself, and, becoming like soft wax, received the print of his sacred foot upon the upper part towards the south-west border. This print is now covered with a large sort of cage of gilt metal wire, worked in such a manner that the print cannot be seen on account of the darkness within, but it may be touched with the hand, through a hole made on purpose. The believers, after having touched the print, proceed to sanctify...