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...ng conditions; it is even possible for us to glance at the helplessness of Arabia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, as yet incapable of self-government, he... ...ole negro population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as ... ...e the safety of such liberated popu- lations as those of Palestine, of the Arab regions of the old T urkish empire, of Armenia, of reunited Poland, an...

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...n there might be a reward. It was an old Mohammedan, with a strong dash of Arab—a smallboned, bald-headed chap, and I was just wondering how it had ke... ...d him properly. Just to show you how demoralized the brute must have been (Arabs often go dotty after a defeat), he’d snapped up four or five utterly ... ...ter of the pack fleeing up the gang-plank, and the tramp of the Governor’s Arab behind them. They would pass over the brow into the dewless crops wher...

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...o. I have eaten in Bedouin tents, and have been ministered to by Turks and Arabs. I have sojourned in the hotels of old Spain and of Spanish America. ...

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... has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon to-day....

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...THE KORAN Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. G. M... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 The Koran The Koran Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J.M. Rodwell, M.A. with an Introduction by the Rev. G. M... ...r r reface eface eface eface eface Sura Number (this edition) Sura Number (Arabic text) Title 1 96 Thick Blood or ... ...acter. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of he- roes, and then proceeded to create t... ...tions addressed to turbulent and largely hostile as- semblies of untutored Arabs. As a book it was published af- ter the prophet’s death. In Muhammed’... ...comparison is made between the ethics of the Koran and the moral tenets of Arabian and other forms of heathenism which it supplanted. The method follo... ...istian and Jewish traditions of the time; and it is, besides some original Arabian legends, to those only that the book stands in any close relationsh... ...as, roughly speaking, all derived from Latin treatises ultimately based on Arabic originals; and it was the Koran which, though indirectly, gave the f... ...hich, though indirectly, gave the first impetus to these studies among the Arabs and their allies. Linguistic investigations, poetry, and other branch...

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..., Sir Howrrd. I’ll send Felix Drinkwotter for him. (He claps his hands. An Arab boy ap- pears at the house door.) Muley: is sailor man here? (Muley no... ... mistrustfully ushering in Sidi el Assif, attended by Osman and a troop of Arabs. Brassbound’s men keep together on the archway side, backing their ca... ...s to face Sidi. Sidi el Aasif, clad in spotless white, is a nobly handsome Arab, hardly thirty, with fine eyes, bronzed complexion, and instinc- tivel... ...ould not have been nicer— I must say that for them—until we saw a tribe of Arabs— such nice looking men!—and then the poor things were frightened. KEA... ...h nice looking men!—and then the poor things were frightened. KEARNEY. The Arabs? LADY CICELY. No: Arabs are never frightened. The escort, of course: ... ...escort, of course: escorts are always frightened. I wanted to speak to the Arab chief; but Captain Brassbound cruelly shot his horse; and the chief sh... ...is- tocratic atheism). But you are a Christian woman. LADY CICELY. No: the Arabs don’t count women. They don’t believe we have any souls. RANKIN. That... ...tly). Do you wawnt it to go any fur- ther? MARZO. She leave out something. Arab shoot me. She nurse me. She cure me. KEARNEY. And who are you, pray? M...

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...icacy will be lost. In its acuter stages every religion must be a homeless Arab of the desert. The church knows this well enough, with its everlasting... ...l fours for some distance back, and then ran for life with the speed of an Arab horse for about half an hour, and fortunately happened to come to a sm... ...their pantheism is so at variance with the hot and rigid monotheism of the Arab mind, it has been suggested that Sufism must have been inoculated into... ... of mys- [247] A. Schmolders: Essai sur les ecoles philosophiques chez les Arabes, Paris, 1842, pp. 54- 68, abridged. 394 The V arieties of Religious...

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...so excited). Bravo, Switzerland! Ma- jor: I bet my best charger against an Arab mare for Raina that Nicola finds the coat in the blue closet. PETKOFF ... ...est char— CATHERINE (hastily interrupting him). Don’t be foolish, Paul. An Arabian mare will cost you 50,000 levas. 51 Shaw RAINA (suddenly coming ou... ... are going to take the jewellery , I don’t see why you should grudge me my Arab. (Nicola comer back with the coat and brings it to Petkoff, who... ...er: I didn’t take that bet of yours, Sergius. You’d better give Raina that Arab steed yourself, since you’ve roused her expectations. Eh, Raina? (He l...

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...ty, he quitted the coffee-house, and was seen canter- ing on a magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He be... ...izing, waiting—an immense Free-Masonry. Once this world-spread band was an Arabian clan—a little nation alone and outlying amongst the mighty monarchi... ... in his countenance one or more of these characteristics of his peer- less Arab race. “How beautiful they are!” mused Codlingsby, as he surveyed these... ...he shadow did which followed you)—of white velvet, painted with flow- ers, arabesques, and classic figures, by Sir William Ross, J. M. W. Turner, R. A... ...s head, and Bugaboo went at it like a shot. He was riding his famous white Arab, and turned quite pale as I came up and went over the horse and the Em... ...e a nobler figure than the leader of the troop—mounted on a splendid black Arab: he was as tall, very nearly, as myself; he wore a steel cap and a shi... ...ncertainties of war! To strap on my sabre and my accoutrements—to mount my Arab charger—to drink off what O’Gawler had left of the sangaree—and to gal... ... ceiling; coffee, introduced by Peter the Hermit, after his excursion into Arabia, and tea such as only Bohemia could produce, circulated amidst the f... ... furiously, irresistibly on! Brave horse! gallant steed! snorting child of Araby! On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, turnpikes, apple-women; a...

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...r pyjamas— HECTOR [who has just appeared in the port doorway in a handsome Arab costume]. Why should the escaping slave take his chains with him? MANG... ...y keeping it up. She makes me wear these ridiculous things [indicating his Arab costume] because she thinks me absurd in evening dress. RANDALL. Still...

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...ts, not it, Are but a narrow pound.’ Said Solomon to Sheba, And kissed her Arab eyes, ‘There’s not a man or woman Born under the skies Dare match in l... ...h different things at school. SOLOMON AND THE WITCH AND thus declared that Arab lady: ‘Last night, where under the wild moon 176 THE COLLECTED POEMS ... ...ntasy decrees We shift about — all that great glory spent — Like some poor Arab tribesman and his tent. We were the last romantics — chose for theme T... ...feat; but I Who have accepted the Byzantine faith, That seems unnatural to Arabian minds, Think when I choose a bride I choose for ever; And if her ey... ...tative dream, Even those truths that when my bones are dust Must drive the Arabian host. The voice grew still, And she lay down upon her bed and slept... ...uty is a storm tossed banner; Under it wisdom stands, and I alone — Of all Arabia’s lovers I alone — Nor dazzled by the embroidery, nor lost In the co...

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...anding on the hill. On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon. He mounted it and rode at a gallop to o...

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...y, or ottoman cov- erings, all upholstery of this nature should be rigidly Arabesque. As for those antique floor-cloth & still occasionally seen in th... ...music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. With no great range of imagination, th... ... dwell— Apart from Heaven’s Eternity—and yet how far from Hell!* *With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and Hell, where men suffer no pun... ...ould remember well— The sun-ray dropp’d, in Lemnos, with a spell On th’Arabesque carving of a gilded hall Wherein I sate, and on the draperied w...

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... glow; No more my locks in ringlets curl’d diffuse The costly sweetness of Arabian dews, Nor braids of gold the varied tresses bind, That fly disorder... ...e, (The soil that arts and infant letters bore,) His conquering tribes the Arabian prophet draws, And saving ignorance enthrones by laws. See Christia... ...nuine than any of the Cleopatras. This royal mummy, being stolen by a wild Arab, was purchased by the consul of Alexandria, and transmitted to the Mus...

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...at im- mense desert, yellow and tranquil, in which cam- els, gazelles, and Arab vagabonds roam about— where, in the rare and transparent atmosphere, t...

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...isov, showing his white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which twitched its ears as the bayo- nets touched it, and snorted, sp... ...lue cloak which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hill... ...drew ribbon over his shoulder. He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold-embroidered saddlecloth. On approaching Alex... ...d and pulled at his horse. Natasha sat easily and confidently on her black Arabchik and reined him in without effort with a firm hand. “Uncle” looked ... ...anding on the hill. On the thirteenth of June a rather small, thoroughbred Arab horse was brought to Napoleon. He mounted it and rode at a gallop to o...

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...d, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its... ...red years earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax ... ...sician,Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquar- ters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in th... ... Bin Ladin. Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.We have relied on a mix of common sense... ...lf-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allow... ... 9:12 AM Page 48 inveighed against the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites. He spoke of the suffering of the... ... Ummah—thus was a Sunni institution that continued until 1924, first under Arab and eventually under Ottoman Turkish control. Many Muslims look back a... ...to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its memory is strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula thr... ...din offers an extreme view of Islamic history designed to appeal mainly to Arabs and Sunnis. He draws on fundamentalists who blame the eventual destru...

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...th respectability. A street-dog was once adopted by a lady. While still an Arab, he had done as Arabs 90 Robert Louis Stevenson do, gambolling in the... ...pare with these, and that was on the night when I brought back with me the Arabian Entertainments in the fat, old, double- columned volume with the pr... ...lity of incident? often, if you will, impossible; often of the order of an Arabian story; and yet all based in human nature. For if you come to that, ... ...re, that captivates in childhood, and still de- lights in age – I mean the Arabian Nights – where you shall look in vain for moral or for intellectual... ...d is found enough. Dumas approaches perhaps nearest of any modern to these Arabian authors in the purely material charm of some of his romances. The e...

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...ssion. He is now upon a larger venture, promising us at last that complete Arabian Nights to which we have all so long looked forward. CHARLES OF ORLE... ...y poet, with a smack of the Paris student, and a smack of the Paris street arab, posting along the highways, in rain or sun, among the green fields an... ...ho should happen to be a man of genius; his levity that of a bitter street arab, full of bread. On a first reading, the pathetic passages preoccupy th...