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Search - Mahomet And His Successors - Volume I

Mahomet And His Successors - Volume I
Author: Washington Irwing

HUDSON EDITION MAHOMET ASTD His SUOGESSOES WASHINGTON IRVING JS TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I NEW TOBK G. P. PUTNAMS SONS 87 ATO 29 WEBT 33D Brsms Entered according to Act of Congress, ia the year 1808, y G. P. PUTNAM AND SON, fa the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. PKEFAOE. OME apology may seem necessary for pre... more »sent ing a life of Mahomet at the present day, when no new fact can be added to those already known concerning Tnnri-Many years since, during a residence in Madrid, the author projected a series of writings illustrative of the domination of the Arabs in Spain. These were to be introduced by a sketch of the life of the founder of the Islam faith, and the first mover of Arabian conquest. Most of the particulars for this were drawn from Spanish sources, and from Gagniers translation of the Arabian historian Abulfeda, a copy of which the author found in the Jesuits Library of the Convent of St. Isidro, at Madrid. Not having followed out in its extent the literary plan devised, the manuscript life lay neglected among the authors papers until the year 1831, when he revised and enlarged it for the Family Library of Mr. John Murray. Circumstances prevented its publication at the time, and it again was thrown aside for years. During his last residence in Spain, the author beguiled 7 8 PREFACE. the tediousness of a lingering indisposition, by again re vising the manuscript, profiting in so doing by recent lights thrown on the subject by different writers, and particularly by Dr. Grustav Weil, the Tery intelligent and learned librarian of the University of Heidelberg, to whose industrious researches and able disquisitions, he acknowledges himself greatly indebted. Such is the origin of the work now given to the public on which the author lays no claim to novelty of fact, nor profundity of research. It still bears the type of a work intended for a Family Library in constructing which the whole aim of the - writer has been to digest into an easy, perspicuous and flowing narrative, the admitted facts concerning Mahomet, together with such legends and traditions as have been wrought into the whole system of oriental literature and at the same time to give such a summary of his faith as might be sufficient for the general reader. Under such circumstances, he has not thought it worth while to encumber his pages with a scaffolding of references and citations, nor depart from the old English nomenclature of oriental names. W. L 1849. Stuttgart, 1848. OHAPTEE L PAGE Preliminary Notice of Arabia and the Arabs 19 CHAPTER IE. Birth and Parentage of Mahomet His Infancy and Childhood 36 CHAPTER HI. Traditions concerning Mecca and the Caaba. 43 CHAPTER IV. First Journey of Mahomet with the Caravan to Syria 48 CHAPTER Y. Commercial Occupations of Mahomet. His Marriage with Cadijah. . 55 CHAPTER VI. Conduct of Mahomet after his Marriage. Becomes anxious for Relig ions Reform. His Habits of Solitary Abstraction. The Tision of the Caye, Has Annunciations as a Prophet 60 9 10 CONTEXTS. CHAPTBE Vtt PAGE Mahomet inculcates his Doctrines secretly and slowly. Receives fur ther Kcvelations and Commands. Announcement to his Kin dred. Manner in which it was received. Enthusiastic Devotion of Ah. Christian Portents 69 OHAPTEE VIII. Outlines of the Mahometan Faith 77 CHAPTER IX. Ridicule cast on Mahomet and his Doctrines. Demand for Miracles. Conduct of Abu. Taleb. Violence of the Koreishites. Ma homets Daughter Eokaia, with her Husband Othman and a Dumber of Disciples, take Refuge in Abyssinia, Mahomet in the House of Orkham. Hostility of Abu Jahl his Punishment. 87 OHAPTEE X. Omar Ibn al Khattfib, Nephew of Abu Jahl, undertakes to revenge his Uncle by slaying Mahomet. His wonderful Conversion to the Faith.-Mahomet takes refuge in a Castle of Abu Taleb. Abu Sofian, at the head of the rival Branch of Koreishites, per secutes Maliomot and his Followers. Obtains a Decree of Non intercourse with them...

ISBN-13: 9781406732658
ISBN-10: 1406732656
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Tansill Press
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