[653]. Waitz, l.c. II. 126 et seq. and especially pp. 167, 439, on the religion and politics of the Negroes, and Gerland in the sixth volume of the same work (passim) on similar institutions among the Polynesians.
[654]. In Tylor, Primitive Culture, II. 306.
[655]. Die Religion der Zukunft, Berlin 1874, p. 102.
[656]. Histoire générale etc., p. 131.
[657]. Thus this much-discussed verse contains no prophecy, but a recollection of the phases of the growth of religion in past times.
[658]. Voyages d’Ibn Batoutah, I. 115 et seq. The jealousy with which the Mohammedans for a long time forbad Christians and Jews to visit the graves of the Patriarchs only began at the year 664 A.H. ‘L’an 664 Bibars défendit aux chrétiens et aux juifs d’entrer dans le temple de Hébron; avant cette époque ils y allaient librement, moyennant une rétribution’ (Quatremère, Mémoire géogr. et hist. sur l’Égypte, Paris 1841, II. 224).
[659]. Ibn Ḳuteybâ, Handbuch der Geschichte, ed. Wüstenfeld, p. 10.
[660]. Burton and Drake, Unexplored Syria, London 1872, I. 33.
[661]. Yâḳût, Muʿjam, IV. 291. 11 et seq.
[662]. Ibid., p. 438. 16.