[74] The City of God, p, 91. Hodder & Stoughton, 1883.

[75] The Turks in India, by H. G. Keene, C.S.I. Allen & Co., 1879.

[76] Annals, etc., p. 457.

[77] See Sura xxxiv, v. 32. The excepted relations are: "Husbands, fathers, husbands' fathers, sons, husbands' sons, brothers, brothers' sons, sisters' sons, the captives which their right hands possess, such men as attend them and have no need of women, or children below the age of puberty."

[78] John xviii, 36, 37.

[79] Dr. Fairbairn, Contemporary Review, p. 865.

[80] The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam, being the Rede Lecture for 1881, delivered before the University of Cambridge, p. 28.

[81] The Koran, etc., p. 65.


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