History of the Saracens Comprising the Lives of Mohammed and His Successors
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780766178250
Subjects: American history; World history; Islam - Mohammad; History; Religion - World Religions; History: American; USA; General
First sentence: THE Arabians, who are also by the Greek, and in imitation of them, by Latin writers, called Saracens, are divided by their historians into three classes: 1. The primitive Arabians, who inhabited Arabia immediately after the flood: of whom nothing now remains but the names of their tribes, as Adites, Thamudites, &amp;c. and some traditional stories of their punishment for not hearkening to the prophets sent to reclaim them; which stories, however fabulous, have not only served to furnish the Arabian poets with subjects and allusions, but are mentioned in a serious manner by Mohammed, in the Koran, in order to deter his followers from disbelieving his mission and rejecting his doctrine.