The Saracens, From The Earliest Times To The Fall Of Bagdad

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Subjects: Islamic Empire Islamic countries History / Middle East / General Religion / Islam / General Religion / Islam / History Social Science / Islamic Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CA Z In the Bible, we have the history of a nation that dwelt quite near the people of whom we are writing. The Jews of Palestine were curiously connected with the men of the deserts, and yet, in most respects, they were strangely separate in their business, their religion, and their lives. Through Ish- mael, the Saracens looked back to the same ancestors, and many among the inhabitants of the Arabian deserts worshipped the God of Abraham ; yet the religious faith and customs of the larger number of them were very different, though their habits of life were in many respects the same. In early times, people of influence from among the " Scriptural People," the " People of the Book," as the Jews were called by the Arabians, had left their homes in Palestine to find new ones in the city of Yathrib, the Medina of after-times. In the sixth century of our era, a whole tribe living in the far south of Arabia had been led to give its allegiance to the faith of the children of Israel, and, according to their strange traditions, the people of the deserts between that region and Palestine had seen a sight, a thousand years before Christ, the story of which impressed the People of the Book very deeply upon the Arabians all along the shores of the Red Sea. The land of the Saracens lies four square, and comprises a territory about eight times as large as the islands of Great Britain. On its western coast roll th...

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