Sketches from Eastern history
By: translated by John Sutherland Black and rev. by the author.
Contributors: Black, J. Sutherland 1846-1923
Publisher: Black
Published: 1892
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Bar Hebraeus, -- 1226-1286; Manṣūr, Abū Jaʻfar, -- Caliph, -- ca. 712-775; Theodore -- II, -- Negus of Ethiopia, -- d. 1868; Ya'kūb ibn al-Lait̲h̲, -- al Ṣaffār, -- d. 879; Islam; Christian saints -- Syria; Semites
Table of contents: title: Some characteristics of the Semitic race; The Koran; Islam; Caliph Mansúr; A servile war in the East; Yakúb the coppersmith and his dynasty; Some Syrian saints; Barhebraeus; King Theodor of Abyssinia.