Footnotes
[1]. Cf. Matt. vii;12. also II Nephi, xxix;11-14; and Alma xxix; 8.
LESSON XXIII.
(Scripture Reading Exercise.)
ANCIENT CONCEPTIONS OF GOD.—(CONTINUED.)
ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
XVIII. Belief of Mohammedans. 1. Arabia and Its People. 2. Mohammed—Birth; Appearance; Character; Mission. 3. Mohammedanism-The Creed. | The Koran[1] of Mohammed (Sales's Translation), Preliminary Discourse, pp. 1-132, and Koran, Chs. iii and xxx. Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Rome," Vol. VI, Ch. 50. Draper's "Intellectual Development of Europe," Vol. I, Ch. xi. Hero and Hero Worship (Carlyle), Lecture II. Dobbins' "World's Worship," Ch. xxxv, xxxvi and the notes of this lesson. |
SPECIAL TEXT: "O Lord our Lord, how Excellent is Thy Name, in all the earth!" Ps. viii.
NOTES.
1. Arabia—The Land: "The Arabs, and the country they inhabit, which themselves call Jexirat al Arab, or the Peninsula of the Arabians, but we Arabia, were so named from Araba, a small territory in the province of Tehama; to which Yarab the son of Kahtan, the father of the ancient Arabs, gave his name, and where, some ages after, dwelt Ishmael the son of Abraham by Hagar. The Christian writers for several centuries speak of them under the appellation of Saxons; the most certain derivation of which word is from 'shark,' the east, where the descendants of Joctan, the Kahtan of the Arabs, are placed by Moses, and in which quarter they dwelt in respect to the Jews.
"The name of Arabia (used in a more extensive sense) sometimes comprehends all that large tract of land bounded by the river Euphrates, the Persian Gulf, the Sindian, Indian, and Red Seas, and part of the Mediterranean; above two-thirds of which country, that is, Arabia properly so-called, the Arabs have possessed almost from the flood; and have made themselves masters of the rest, either by settlements, or continual incursions; for which reason the Turks and Persians at this day call the whole Arabistan, or the country of the Arabs.