The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay Trumbull

[352]. Maurice’s Indian Antiquities, V., 89.

[353]. Maurice’s Indian Antiquities, V., 79 f., note. Compare Trumbull’s Blood Covenant, pp. 157–164.

[354]. Maurice’s Modern Hist. of Hindostan, Pt. I., Bk. 2, chap. 3, p. 296 f.

[355]. Hughes’s Dictionary of Islam, art. “Masjid;” also Conder’s Heth and Moab, p. 293 f.; also Lane’s The Modern Egyptians, I., 105.

[356]. Morier’s Second Journey through Persia, p. 254.

[357]. The moon is said to have thus bowed before Muhammad, at the threshold of the Kaabeh at Meccah. Anecdotes Arabes et Mussulmans, p. 22 f. (By J.F. de la Croix, Paris, 1772.)

[358]. Chardin’s Voyage, I., 282.

[359]. Ibid., I., 292.

[360]. Laurie’s Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians, p. 134 f.

[361]. Vambéry’s Travels in Central Asia, p. 233.