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" This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which time they employed themselves, not only in trading, but in repeating their poetical compositions, contending and vying with each other for the prize ; whence the place, it is said, took its name. "
Antar, a Bedoueen Romance - Page xxiv
1820
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Illustrations of the Truth of the Christian Religion

Edward Maltby - Apologetics - 1802 - 476 pages
...compofitions, contending and vying with each other for the prize j whence the place, it is faid, took it's name. The poems that were judged to excel, were laid up in their king's treafuries; as were the feven celebrated poems, thence called Al Moallakat, rather than...
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Selections from the Ḳur-án, with an interwoven comm; tr., arranged, and ...

Edward William Lane - 1843 - 336 pages
...place famous on this account, and where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which was held on our Sunday." This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which time they employed themselves, not only a Ibn-RasheeV, apud Poc. Spec. p. 160. b Poc. Orat. prtcfix. Carm. Tograi, ubi supra. in trading, but...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed

1856 - 692 pages
...place famous on this account, and where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which was held on our Sunday.8 This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which...the prize ; whence the place, it is said, took its name.9 The poems that were judged to excel were laid up in their king's treasuries, as were the seven...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed : Translated Into English ...

George Sale - 1856 - 692 pages
...place famous on this account, and where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which was held on our Sunday.' This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which...said, took its name.' The poems that were judged to excul were laid up in their king's treasuries, as were the seven 'celebrated poems, thence called al...
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The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed

1860 - 688 pages
...this account, und where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which was held on our Sunday.' This aunual meeting lasted a whole month, during which time they...The poems that were judged to excel were laid up in their king's treasuries, as were the seven celebrated poems, thence called al Moallukut, rather than...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Part 121

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1867 - 684 pages
...place famous on this account, and where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which was held on our Sunday.' This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which...they employed themselves, not only in trading, but repeating their poetical compositions, contending and vying with each other for the prize ; whence...
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A Comprehensive Commentary on the Qurán: Comprising Sale's Translation ...

E. M. Wherry - Qurʼan - 1882 - 432 pages
...place famous on this account, and where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which was held on our Sunday.4 This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which...repeating their poetical compositions, contending and vicing with each other for the prize ; whence the place, it is said, took its name.5 The poems that...
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The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed: Translated Into English ...

1888 - 688 pages
...place famous on this account, and where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which was held on our Sunday.' This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which...themselves, not only in trading, but in repeating I heir poetical compositions, contending end vying with each other for the prize ; whence the place,...
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A Comprehensive Commentary on the Quran: Comprising Sale's Translation ...

1896 - 410 pages
...famous on this account, and where they kept a weekly mart or fair, which, was held on our Sunday.4 This annual meeting lasted a whole month, during which...repeating their poetical compositions, contending and vieiug with oaoh other for the prize ; whence the place, it is said, took its name.5 The poems that...
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A Comprehensive Commentary on the Qurán: Comprising Sale's ..., Volume 1

Elwood Morris Wherry - Qurʼan - 1896 - 420 pages
...not only in trading, but in repeating their poetical compositions, contending and vieing with ? aoii other for the prize ; •whence the place, it is said, took its name.5 The poems that were judged to excel were laid up in their kings' treasuries, as were the seven...
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