Sketches from eastern history
By: by Theodor Nöldeke...tr. by John Sutherland Black, M. A., and revised by the author.
Contributors: Black, J. Sutherland 1846-1923, tr.
Publisher: A. and C. Black
Published: 1892
Place of publication: London and Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286; Theodore II, Negus of Ethiopia, d. 1868; Semites; Islam; Christian saints; Islamic Empire; Syria -- Church history
Notes: "Of the following studies, three have already appeared in German periodicals, and one (that on the Koran) forms part of the articla Mohammedanism in the 9th edition of the Encyclopedia britannica...The fourth, fifth, and sixth, and to some extent the second and third also, may be regarded as supplementing Aug. Müller's excellent 'History of Islam'."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Some characteristics of the Semitic race.; title: The Koran.; title: Islam.; title: Caliph Mansúr.; title: A servile war in the East.; title: Yakúb the coppersmith, and his dynasty.; title: Some Syrian saints.; title: Barhebraeus.; title: King Theodore of Abyssinia.