Impressions of Turkey During Twelve Years Wandering, p. 271 et seq. (London, 1897).
“The Christians were crushed by the arts and arms of their own brethren; Constantinople fell, not before the Saracen or the Turk but before warriors of Greek and Slavonic blood.” Op. cit., p. 272.
[104] Gibbons, op. cit., p. 302.
[105] Ibid., p. 123.
[106] H. A. Gibbons, op. cit., p. 81.
[107] Sura II, 257.
[108] Sura X, 99, 100.
[109] The erudite Assemani, Librarian of the Vatican Library, writing of certain persecutions of the Christians by Mohammedans, declares: “Non raro persecutionis procellam excitarunt mutuæ Christianorum ipsorum simultates, sacerdotum licencia, præsulum fastus, tyrannica magnatum potestas, et medicorum præesertim scribarumque de supremo in gentem suam imperio altercationes.” Biblotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana, Tom. III, Pars, II (Rome, 1719–1728).
[110] The Preaching of Islam, a History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith, pp. 422, 423 (by T. W. Arnold, London, 1913).
[111] Ibid., pp. 79, 80.