INTRODUCTION.
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I.THE ARABS BEFORE MOḤAMMAD[xi]
II.MOḤAMMAD[xxxvii]
III.ISLÁM[lxxvii]
IV.THE ḲUR-ÁN[c]
PART THE FIRST.
I.THE OPENING PRAYER[3]
II.PREMONITION[4]
III.GOD[5]
IV.MOḤAMMAD AND THE ḲUR-ÁN[13]
V.THE RESURRECTION, PARADISE, AND HELL[21]
VI.PREDESTINATION[32]
VII.ANGELS AND JINN[33]
VIII.TRUE RELIGION AND FALSE[34]
IX.BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS[38]
PART THE SECOND.
I.PROPHETS, APOSTLES, AND DIVINE BOOKS[47]
II.ADAM AND EVE[49]
III.ABEL AND CAIN[53]
IV.NOAH AND THE FLOOD[55]
V.´ÁD AND THAMOOD[60]
VI.DHU-L-ḲARNEYN[63]
VII.ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL, ISAAC[66]
VIII.JACOB, JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN[77]
IX.JOB[93]
X.SHO´EYB[95]
XI.MOSES AND HIS PEOPLE[97]
XII.SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON[132]
XIII.JONAH[146]
XIV.EZRA[148]
XV.THE MESSIAH[149]
INDEXES[167]

INTRODUCTION.

I.—THE ARABS BEFORE MOḤAMMAD.

‘Oh, our manhood’s prime vigour! No spirit feels waste,

Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced.

Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock,

The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock