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Various. Selections from the Kur-an
Selections from the Kur-an
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I.—THE ARABS BEFORE MOḤAMMAD
II.—MOḤAMMAD
III.—ISLAM
IV.—THE ḲUR-ÁN
BOOKS,
PART THE FIRST
THE OPENING PRAYER.26
PREMONITION
GOD
MOḤAMMAD AND THE ḲUR-ÁN
THE RESURRECTION, PARADISE, AND HELL
PREDESTINATION
ANGELS AND JINN.158
TRUE RELIGION AND FALSE
BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS
PART THE SECOND
PROPHETS, APOSTLES, AND DIVINE BOOKS.190
ADAM AND EVE
ABEL AND CAIN
NOAH AND THE FLOOD
´AD AND THAMOOD
DHU-L-ḲARNEYN
ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL, ISAAC
JACOB, JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN
JOB
SHO´EYB
MOSES AND HIS PEOPLE
SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON
JONAH
EZRA
THE MESSIAH
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX OF CHAPTERS
GENERAL INDEX
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The poems of the early Arabs are full of the deeds of their warriors, the excitement of the pitched battle, the delight of the pursuit, the nightly raid on the camp, the trial of skill between rival chiefs, and the other pictures of a warrior’s triumph. Here we find little of the generosity of war: mercy was rarely exercised and hatred was carried to its extremest limits; quarter was neither asked nor given; to despatch a wounded man was no disgrace; the families of the vanquished were enslaved. Notwithstanding his frank genial nature, the Arab was of a dangerously quick temper, derived, he boasted, from the flesh he lived on of the camel, the surliest and most ill-conditioned of beasts. If he conceived himself insulted, he was bound to revenge himself to the full, or he would have been deemed dishonoured for ever. And since his fiery temper easily took offence, the history of the early Arabs is full of the traditions of slight quarrels and their horrible results—secret assassination and the long-lasting blood-feud.
