Selections from the Kur-an

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GENERAL INDEX.

• Aaron, [105], ff.
• ´Abbás, Ibn-, [50].
• ´Abdallah ibn Ubayy, [lx].
• ´Abd-el-Muṭṭalib, [xxxvii], [73].
• Abel, [53].
• Aboo-Bekr, [xlv], [xlvii], [lvi], [lxxvii].
• Aboo-Firás, [xxix].
• Aboo-Lahab, [li], [lii].
• Aboo-Ṭálib, [xxxviii], [xlv], [xlvii], [xlix], [l], [lii].
• Abraham, [xxxii], [15], [47], [66]-76.
• Abrogation of revelations, [19], [20], [38].
• Abyssinia, flight to, [xlvii].
• Ád, [60], [61].
• Adam, [47], [49]-52, [164].
• Advent of Christ, second, [163].
• African converts, [xcvii].
• Aḥmad, prophecy of, [15].
• ´Aïsheh, [liii], [lxix], [lxxiii].
• ´Aḳabeh, pledges of the, [lv], [lvi].
• ´Alee, [xxxix], [lvi].
• Alláh Ta´ála, [xxxiii].
• Alms, [lxxxiv], [36].
• Amnesty to Mekka, [lxvii].
• Anas, [xli].
• Ancestry, pride of, [xviii].
• Angels, [33], [49].
• Anṣár, [lix], [lx].
• ´Anṭarah, [xxviii].
• Antichrist, [157], [163].
• Antioch, [159]-161.
• Apostles, [14], [47], [156].
• Appearance of Moḥammad, [xl].
• Arab poetry, examples, [xiv], [xv], [xvi], [xvii], [xviii], [xix], [xxix].
• Arabia, [xi]-xiii.
• Arabia, submission of, [lxvii].
• Arabs at Yethrib, [liv].
• Arabs before Islám, the, xi-xxxv;
  • their country, [xi];
  • influence on their character, [xii];
  • the Bedawee nature, [xiii];
  • devotion to the clan, [xiv];
  • honour, [xv];
  • war and plunder, [xvi];
  • ferocity, [xvi], [xvii];
  • family pride, [xviii];
  • pledge of protection, [xviii];
  • hospitality, [xix];
  • Ḥátim the ideal Arab, [xix]-xxii;
  • Arab poetry, [xxii]-xxiv;
  • the fair of ´Okáḍh, [xxiv]-xxvi;
  • women of Arabia, [xxvi];
  • chivalry, [xxvii], [xxviii];
  • fathers and daughters, [xxix];
  • town life, [xxx];
  • Mekka, [xxx].;
  • music and poetry at Mekka, [xxxi];
  • dice and drink, [xxxi];
  • the Kaạbeh, [xxxii];
  • religion of the early Arabs, [xxxii];
  • Christianity and Judaism in Arabia, [xxxiv];
  • the Ḥaneefs, [xxxiv];
  • Zeyd ibn ´Amr, [xxxv];
  • the change in the Arabs effected by Moḥammad, [xxxv].
• Aristocracy, hostility of, [xlvii].
• Ark, [56], [57], [133].
• Áṣaf Solomon’s wezeer, [142].
• Aws, Benee-, [liv].
• Azar or Terah, [66].
• Babel, Tower of, [69].
• Bathsheba, [135].
• Bayard of Islám, [l].
• Bedr, [lxv].
• Behá-ed-deen Zoheyr, [xxiv].
• Believers and unbelievers, [38]-43.
• Benjamin, [77], [84], [86]-89.
• Bilál, the first Muëddin, [xlv], [xlvii].
• Bilḳees, Queen of Sheba, [139]-143.
• Birds and Solomon, [138]-139.
• Book, the preserved, [17].
• Books, divine, [47]-48.
• Byzantium, Emperor of, [lxviii].
  
• Cain, [53], [54].
• Caleb, 123.
• Calf, the golden, [118], ff.
• Camel of Moḥammad, [lxvi].
• Camel of Thamood, [61], [62].
• Camel-driver, Moḥammad a, [xxxix].
• Caussin de Perceval, M., [xxii].
• Chivalry of ancient Arabs, [xxvii], [xxviii].
• Christ, [47], [149]-165.
• —— divinity of, [154], [162]-165.
• —— the Messiah, [lxi].
• —— the Word of God, [lxxxii], [165].
• —— supposed crucifixion of, [156], [161].
• —— second advent of, [163].
• Christians, [xxxiv], [38], [40], [42], [48], [164].
• Clan feeling, [xiv].
• Corruption of Christian and Jewish scriptures, [48].
• Cow, sacrifice of, [125]-127.
• Daughters of God, [xxxiii], [9], [11], [33].
• Daughters, love of, [xxix].
• David, [47], [134]-36, [138].
• Davidean coats of mail, [135].
• Day of judgment, [21]-31.
• Debtors, [37].
• Destiny, [32].
• Deutsch, Dr. Emanuel, [xxiv], [xl].
• Devils, [7], [31], [136], [137], [138].
• Dhafár, Christians of, [xxxiv].
• Dhu-l-Ḳarneyn, [63]-65, [128].
• Dhu-l-Kifl, [47].
• Dice, [xxxi].
• Disaffected party, [lx], [lxv].
• Divine books, [47]-48.
• Divinity of Christ, [154], [162]-165.
• Divinity of the Virgin, [162], [165].
• Drink, love of, [xxxi].
• Eden, [51].
• Egypt, [79], ff.
• Egypt, plagues of, [112]-114.
• Elias, [128].
• Embarcation formula, [57].
• Emeen, El-, [xl], [xlv].
• Emeeneh, El-, [137].
• Enoch, [47].
• Eve, [51].
• Evil eye, [85].
• Exodus, the, [114], ff.
• Ezekiel, lines from, [xxx].
• Ezra, [148].
• Fair, see ´Okáḍh.
• Family pride of Arabs, [xviii].
• Famine of Egypt, [83], ff.
• Fanes, [xxxiii].
• Fast, [lxxxiv], [117].
• Fate, [lxxxi], [32].
• Fathers and daughters, [xxix].
• Fátiḥah, [3].
• Fetishism, [xxxiii].
• Fijár, war of the, [xxxviii].
• Firás, Aboo-, [xxix].
• Flight of Moḥammad, [lvi], [lvii].
• Flight to Abyssinia, [xlvii].
• Flood, [55]-59.
• Forgery, lxvii ff., [19].
• Gabriel, [xliv], [72], [73], [78], [111], [152], [16].
• God, [5]-12.
• —— unity, profession of, [5].
• —— has no partners, [9], [11], [33], [154], [162]-165.
• —— the supreme, [xxxiii].
• —— Moḥammad doctrine of, [lxxx].
• Goddesses, moon, [xxxiii], [xlviii].
• Gog and Magog, [64], [65].
• Golden calf, [118], ff.
• Goliath, [133], [134].
• Good for evil, [37].
• Gospel, [15], [47], [48], [149], ff.
• Greeting, [37].
• Habeeb, [159], ff.
• Haggadah, [xliii], [lxi], [lxii].
• Hámán, [97], [110].
• Haneefs, [xxxiv].
• Háshimees, [xxxviii], [li], [lii].
• Ḥátim, [xix]-xxii.
• Ḥawáreeyoon, El-, [156].
• Heber, [47], [160], [161].
• Hell, [21]-31.
• Helpers, the, [lix], [lx].
• Ḥijáz;, [xii].
• Hijreh, the, [lvii].
• Ḥirá, Mount, [xliii].
• Honour, Arab, [xv].
• Hood, [47], [60], [61].
• Ḥooreeyehs, notes [128], [131].
• Hospitality, Arab, [xix].
• Howwá, [51].
• Hubal, [xxxii].
• Humanity, [lxxxvi].
• Hypocrites, [31], [41].
• ‘Hypocrites, the,’ [lx].
• Iblees, [31], [49], [50].
• Idols, [xxxii], [xlvi], [lxvi], [8], [11], [12], [30].
• Idrees, 47.
• Ilyás, [128].
• Imám, [74], [163].
• ´Imrán, [149].
• Infanticide, [xxxii], [23].
• Inspiration, [lxxiv].
• Isaac, [47], [70]-73.
• Ishmael, [xxxii], [47], [72]-73.
• Iskender, [63].
• Islám, lxxvii-xcix, [76].
• Jacob, [47], [70], [71], [77]-92.
• Jann, El-, or Iblees, [49].
• Jerusalem, Temple of, [145].
• Jesus of Nazareth, see Christ.
• Jethro, [47], [95], ff.
• Jewish corruption of Scripture, [48].
• Jews, liv, lxii-lxv, [38], [40], [41], [42], [48].
• Jinn, [liii], [7], [9], [33], [136]-138, [144], [145].
• Jinnee, Moḥammad possessed by a, [17].
• Ji´ráneh, El-, scene at, [lix].
• Job, [93], [94].
• Jonah, [146], [147].
• Joodee, mountain of El-, [58].
• Joseph, [77]-92.
• Joseph and Zeleekha, [83].
• Joshua, [47], [123], [124], [127]-129.
• Judah, [77]-79.
• Judaism in Arabia, [xxxiv].
• Kaạbeh, [xxxii], [lxxxiv], [74]-75.
• Ḳaṣwá, El-, [lxvi].
• Khadeejeh, [xxxix], [lii], [liii], [lxxi], [lxxii].
• Khaṭeeb-el-Ambiya, [95].
• Khazraj, Benee-, [liv].
• Khiḍr, El-, [47], [128]-130.
• Khusru, the, [lxvii].
• Ḳiṭfeer, [79].
• Korah, [124], [125].
• Kudar ibn Sálif, [62].
• Ḳureysh, [xxxvii] f, [xlv]-lviii, [lxv]-lxvii.
• Ḳur-án, [4], [13]-20, [47];
• • state in which it was left by Moḥammad, [ci];
  • first revision, [ci];
  • second revision, [ci];
  • chaotic order, [cii];
  • scientific arrangement of Nöldeke, [ciii];
  • characteristics of different groups, [civ];
  • statistics, [cvi].
    
• Lahab, Aboo-, [li], [lii].
• Lapwing and Solomon, [139].
• Lát, El-, [xxxiii].
• Lazarus, [155].
• Lion of God, [l].
• Lot, [47], [69], [70].
• Lyall, Mr. C. J., [xv].
• Marriages of Moḥammad, [xxxix], [lxx] ff.
• Martyrs for the faith, [30].
• Mary the Virgin, [149], ff.
• Mary, divinity of, [162], [165].
• Medina, [lvii], [lix] ff., [lxv], and see Yethrib.
• Mekka, xxx ff., [lxvii].
• Menáh, [xxxiii].
• Messenger or apostle, [14].
• Messiah, see Christ.
• Metempsychosis, [xxxiii].
• Midian, [95], [96], [101].
• Migrations of Muslims, [xlvii], [lvii].
• Mi´ráj, [lv].
• Misr, [88].
• Miracles or signs, [16], [17], [18], [52].
• Miriam (Maryam), [99], [105].
• Moḥammad, [13]-20, [47];
• • his family, [xxxvii];
  • childhood, [xxxvii];
  • youth, [xxxviii].
  • shepherding, [xxxviii];
  • camel-driving, [xxxix];
  • personal appearance, [xl];
  • habits, [xli], [xlii];
  • solitary wanderings, [xlii];
  • the call, [xliii];
  • public appearance, [xliv];
  • first conversions, [xlv];
  • address on Mount Eṣ-Ṣafá, [xlvi];
  • preaching, [xlvi];
  • hostility of the aristocracy, [xlvii];
  • torturing of slaves, [xlvii].
  • emigration to Abyssinia, [xlvii];
  • speech to the Negus, [xlviii];
  • persecution by Ḳureysh, [xlviii];
  • compromise, [xlviii];
  • interview with Aboo-Ṭálib, [xlix];
  • conversion of ´Omar and Ḥamzeh, [l];
  • the ban of the Háshimees, [li];
  • its end, [lii];
  • death of Aboo-Ṭálib and Khadeejeh, [lii];
  • visit to Eṭ-Ṭáïf, [liii];
  • pilgrims from Yethrib, [liv];
  • state of parties at Yethrib, [liv];
  • first pledge of the ´Aḳabeh, [lv];
  • Yethrib and Mekka, [lv];
  • the night journey, [lv];
  • second pledge of the ´Aḳabeh, [lvi];
  • emigration of Muslims to Yethrib, [lvii];
  • Moḥammad’s flight or Hijreh, [lvii], [lviii];
  • retrospect, [lviii];
  • parties at Medina, [lix];
  • the Refugees, Helpers, Hypocrites, [lix], [lx];
  • the Jews, [lxi];
  • are conciliated, [lxii];
  • but become hostile, [lxii];
  • their punishment, lxiii-lxv;
  • war with the Ḳureysh, [lxv];
  • Bedr, Oḥud, siege of Medina, truce, [lxv];
  • the Muslims perform the Lesser Pilgrimage, [lxvi];
  • conquest of Mekka, [lxvii];
  • complete amnesty, [lxvii];
  • submission of Arabia, [lxvii].
  • farewell pilgrimage and oration, [lxviii];
  • death, [lxix];
  • character, [lxix];
  • charges of cruelty, sensuality, insincerity, discussed, [lxx]-lxxvi.
• Moḥammad, the illiterate or Gentile apostle, [122].
• Moon-goddesses, [xxxiii], [xlvii].
• Moses, [92], [97]-131.
• Mosques or temples, [36].
• Mountain-worship, [xxxiii].
• Muëddin, the first, [xlv], [xlvii].
• Muḥájiroon, [lx], [lxv].
• Munáfiḳoon, [lix].
• Muṣ´ab, [lv].
• Muṣ´ab ibn Er-Reiyán, [97].
• Muslim, meaning of, [75].
• Muslim, the true, [43].
• Negro slaves, [xlv], [xlvii].
• Negus or Nejáshee, [xli], [xlvii], [xlviii].
• Nejd, [xii].
• Nejrán, [xxxiv], [164].
• Night journey, [lv].
• Nimrod, [66], [69], [70].
• Nineveh, [147].
• Noah, [47], [55]-59.
• Nöldeke, [ciii].
• Nun, [47].
• Oḥud, battle of, [lxv], [32].
• ´Okaḍh, fair of, xxiv-xxvi, [xxxviii].
• ´Omar, [l].
• ´Oneyzeh, [62].
• Oration, farewell, [lxviii].
• Oratory among the Arabs, [xxiv].
• ´Othmán, [xlv].
• Oven of El-Koofeh, [37].
• ´Ozeyr or Ezra, [148].
• Palmer, Prof. E. H., [xxiv].
• Parables, [38]-40.
• Paraclete, [15].
• Paradise, [21]-31.
• Partners with God, [9], [11], [33].
• Parties at Medina, [lix].
• Penates, [xxxiii].
• Pentateuch, [47], [48].
• People of the Scripture, [38].
• Perceval, M. Caussin de, [xxii].
• Person of Moḥammad, [xl].
• Pharaoh of Joseph, [81], [83].
• Pharaoh of Moses, [97], ff.
• Pilgrimage, [lxxxiv].
• • lesser, [lxvi].
  • last, [lxviii].
• Pilgrims, [xxxvii], [liv].
• Pledges of the ´Aḳabeh, [lv], [lvi].
• Poetry, Arab, [xxii]-xxiv.
• Polygamy, [lxxxix]-xcii.
• Potiphar, [79].
• Potiphar’s wife, [79], [83].
• Prayer, [lxxxiii].
  • opening, [cvi], [3]
• Preaching of Moḥammad, [xlvi].
• Preceders, the, [25].
• Predestination, [32].
• Premonition, [4].
• Preserved book, the, [17].
• Pride of ancestry, [xviii].
• Priests, [xxxiii].
• Prophets, [47], [48].
• Protection, [xviii].
• Psalms, [47], [48].
• Queen of Sheba, [139], ff.
• Refugees, the, [lix], [lx].
• Reiyán, Er-, [81], [97].
• Rek´ah, [74].
• Religion of early Arabs, [xxxii].
• Religion, true and false, [34]-37.
• Resurrection, [21]-31.
• Reuel, see Sho´eyb.
• Revelations, series of, [14], [47]-48.
• Revelations, Moḥammad’s, [c], [13].
• Sabians, [38], [48].
• Sabbath-breaking, [116].
• Ṣadaḳah, [62].
• Eṣ-Ṣafá, [xlvi], [lxvi].
• Ṣafoora, [102].
• Sáliḥ, [47], [61], [62].
• Sámiree Es-, [118], ff.
• Samuel, [133].
• Sarah, [71].
• Saul, [132].
• Seers, [xxxiii].
• Sensuality of Moḥammad, [lxx] ff.
• Seth, [47].
• Sheba, Queen of, [139], ff.
• Shi-b or quarter, [li].
• Shepherding, [xxxviii].
• Sho´eyb, or Jethro, or Reuel, [47], [95], ff.
• Ṣiḍḍeek, Es-, [xlv].
• Siege of Medina, [lxv].
• Sierra Leone, [xcviii].
• Signs, see Miracles.
• Sincerity of Moḥammad, [lxxii] ff.
• Slaves, [xlv], [xlvii], [lxviii].
• Smith, Mr. R. Bosworth, [xliii], [lxxxvii].
• Sodom, [70], ff.
• Solomon, [136]-145.
• Sons of God, [9], [11], [33], [154], [162]-165.
• Soorah, the first, [xliii].
• Soorah, the second, [xliv].
• Soorahs, “forged,” [lxxii].
• Table from heaven, the, [157]-159.
• Tablet, the preserved, [17].
• Ṭaïf, Eṭ-, [liii], [74], [138].
• Talḥah, [xlv].
• Ṭálib, see Aboo-Ṭálib.
• Terah, [66].
• Temples, [xxxiii], [36], [145].
• Thamood, [61], [62].
• Throne-verse, [5].
• Thór, Mount, [lvii].
• Torturing slaves, [xlvii].
• Town-life in Arabia, [xxx].
• Treating with Jews, [lxii].
• Tree-worship, [xxxiii].
• Truce with Ḳureysh, [lxv].
• Ubayy, Ibn-, [lx].
• Umm-Ghánim, [62].
• Umeyyeh, branch of, [xxxviii].
• Unity, profession of the, [5].
• Uzzá, El-, [xxxiii].
• Waraḳah, [xxxv].
• Wars of Moḥammad, [xxxviii], [lxv].
• Weleed, El-, [81], [97].
• Wives of Moḥammad, [lxx] ff.
• Wives, command as to, [lxviii].
• Women of Arabia, [xxvii] ff.
• Women in Paradise, [30].
• Yethrib, xxxvii, [liv], [lv], [lvi], and see Medina.
• Zeleekha, [79], [83].
• Zemzem, [xxxii], [73].
• Zeyd, [xxxix].
• Zeyd ibn ´Amr, [xxxv].
• Zeyd ibn Thábit, [ci].
• Zeyneb, [lxxii].
• Zipporah, [102].

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Erratum.—

P. [36], line 1, for should read shall. P. [122], line 21, after illiterate add [or Gentile, i.e., Arab].

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