Title: The History of the Saracens
Description: Collected from the most authentick Arabic authors. [Vol. I. being for the most part a free translation from al-Waqīdī's History of the conquest of Syria by the Arabs, entitled Futūḥ al-Shām, with additions inserted from various other authors.] (Sentences of Ali, Son-in-law of Mahomet, and his fourth successor. Translated from an . . . Arabic Manuscript . . . by S. Ockley.).
Subjects: Caliphs
Places: Islamic Empire
People: Muḥammad Prophet (-632), Abū Bakr Caliph (-634), ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Caliph (-644), ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān Caliph (-656), ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Caliph (approximately 600-661)