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Gladys M. Draycott. Mahomet, Founder of Islam
Mahomet, Founder of Islam
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION. I. MAHOMET'S BIRTHPLACE. II. CHILDHOOD. III. STRIFE AND MEDITATION. IV. ADVENTURE AND SECURITY. V. INSPIRATION. VI. SEVERANCE. VII. THE CHOSEN CITY. VIII. THE FLIGHT TO MEDINA. IX. THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER. X. THE SECESSION OF THE JEWS. XI. THE BATTLE OF BEDR. XII. THE JEWS AT MEDINA. XIII. THE BATTLE OF OHOD. XIV. THE TYRANNY OF WAR. XV. THE WAR OF THE DITCH. XVI. THE PILGRIMAGE TO HODEIBIA. XVII. THE FULFILLED PILGRIMAGE. XVIII. THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. XIX. MAHOMET, VICTOR. XX. ICONOCLASM. XXI. LAST RITES. XXII. THE GENESIS OF ISLAM. INDEX
ANATOLE FRANCE. MAHOMET
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
MAHOMET'S BIRTHPLACE
CHAPTER II
CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER III
STRIFE AND MEDITATION
CHAPTER IV
ADVENTURE AND SECURITY
CHAPTER V
INSPIRATION
CHAPTER VI
SEVERANCE
CHAPTER VII
THE CHOSEN CITY
CHAPTER VIII
THE FLIGHT TO MEDINA
CHAPTER IX
THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER
CHAPTER X
THE SECESSION OF THE JEWS
CHAPTER XI
THE BATTLE OF BEDR
CHAPTER XII
THE JEWS AT MEDINA
CHAPTER XIII
THE BATTLE OF OHOD
CHAPTER XIV
THE TYRANNY OF WAR
CHAPTER XV
THE WAR OF THE DITCH
CHAPTER XVI
THE PILGRIMAGE TO HODEIBIA
CHAPTER XVII
THE FULFILLED PILGRIMAGE
CHAPTER XVIII
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
CHAPTER XIX
MAHOMET, VICTOR
CHAPTER XX
ICONOCLASM
CHAPTER XXI
LAST RITES
CHAPTER XXII
THE GENESIS OF ISLAM
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Gladys M. Draycott
Published by Good Press, 2019
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When Abd al Muttalib knew his end was near he sent for his daughters, and bade them make lamentation over him. We possess traditional accounts of these funeral songs; they are representative of the wild rhetorical eloquence of the poetry of the day. They lose immensely in translation, and even in reading with the eye instead of hearing, for they were never meant to find immortality in the written words, but in the speech of men.
"When in the night season a voice of loud lament proclaimed the sorrowful tidings I wept, so that the tears ran down my face like pearls. I wept for a noble man, greater than all others, for Sheibar, the generous, endowed with virtues; for my beloved father, the inheritor of all good things, for the man faithful in his own house, who never shrank from combat, who stood fast and needed not a prop, mighty, well-favoured, rich in gifts. If a man could live for ever by reason of his noble nature—but to none is this lot vouchsafed—he would remain untouched of death because of his fair fame and his good deeds."
