THE SACRED BOOKS AND
EARLY LITERATURE OF
THE EAST

WITH HISTORICAL SURVEYS OF THE CHIEF
WRITINGS OF EACH NATION

Translations, Bibliographies, etc., by the following
Leading Orientalists:

IN AMERICA:

MORRIS JASTROW, LL.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania; JAMES H. BREASTED, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University of Chicago; CHARLES C. TORREY, D.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, Yale University; A. V. W. JACKSON, LL.D., Professor of Indo-Iranian, Columbia University; CHARLES R. LANMAN, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard University; REV. CHARLES F. AIKEN, S.T.D., Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University; FRIEDRICH HIRTH, LL.D., Professor of Chinese, Columbia University; REV. WILLIAM E. GRIFFIS, D.D., former Professor at the Imperial University, Tokio.

IN EUROPE:

E. A. W. BUDGE, F.S.A., Director of Egyptology in the British Museum; SIR GASTON MASPERO, D.C.L., Member of the Royal Institute of France; REV. A. H. SAYCE, LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford University; W. FLINDERS-PETRIE, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University College, London; STEPHEN LANGDON, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, Oxford University; SIR ERNEST SATOW, LL.D., G.C.M.G. British Minister to Japan; H. OLDENBERG, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Kiel University; T. W. RHYS-DAVIDS, LL.D, Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society; ARMINIUS VAMBÉRY, LL.D, Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Budapest.

IN ASIA:

SIR M. COOMARA SWAMY, Legislative Council of Ceylon; ROMESH CHUNDER DUTT, C.I.E, Author of the History of Civilization in Ancient India; DARAB D. P. SANJANA, Educational Society of Bombay; VISCOUNT KENCHO SUYEMATSU LL.M, Japanese Minister of the Interior; SHEIK FAIZ-ULLAH-BHAI, Head Master of the Schools of Anjuman-i-Islam; RALPH T. GRIFFITH, President Benares College, India; JIVANJI JAMSHEDJI MODI, Fellow of Bombay University, Officier de l'Academie Française.

Under the editorship of a staff of specialists directed by
PROF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.

PARKE, AUSTIN, AND LIPSCOMB, INC.
NEW YORKLONDON

This Volume is one of a complete set of the Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, consisting of fourteen volumes. In Volume I of the series will be found a certificate as to the limitation of the edition and the registered number of this set.

THE SLAVE GIRL OF ABU ZAYD.

"Behold I had a slave girl, elegant of shape,

Smooth of cheek, patient to labor."

AL HARIRI, The Eighth Assembly.

THE SACRED BOOKS AND EARLY
LITERATURE OF THE EAST

VOLUME VI

MEDIEVAL ARABIC, MOORISH,
AND TURKISH

In Translations by

E. J. W. Gibb of the Royal Asiatic Society; Stanley Lane-Poole, Litt.D., Professor of Arabic, Trinity College, Dublin; Arminius Vambery, LL.D., Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Budapest; Thomas Chenery, M.A., Former Professor of Arabic at Oxford University; Ernest Renan, Former Professor of Hebrew, College of France; Claud Field, M.A.; and other authorities.

With brief Bibliographies by
Prof. Charles C. Torrey, LL.D., and Prof. Edward H. Johns, Ph.D.

With an Historical Survey and Descriptions by
Prof. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.

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NEW YORK LONDON

"Let there be light."—GENESIS 1, 3.

"There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man."⁣"MAX MÜLLER.

THE SACRED BOOKS AND EARLYLITERATURE OF THE EAST

THE SACRED BOOKS AND EARLY
LITERATURE OF THE EAST