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 1  I             |           Babylonia and Syria.~ ~The Arabs were divided into those
 2  I             |        birthplace of el Islâm.~ ~The Arabs of the desert preserved
 3  I             |     strongest characteristics of the Arabs, and must be borne in mind
 4  I             |            it, 'the registers of the Arabs are the verses of their
 5  I             |           him.~ ~The religion of the Arabs was Sabæanism, or the worship
 6  I             |             were held by the ancient Arabs to be the daughters of Allâh;
 7  I             |              religion of most of the Arabs of Syria.~ ~But it had not
 8  I             |              for the majority of the Arabs, while the numerous and
 9  I             |             national religion of the Arabs, had so far degenerated
10  I             |        symptoms were supposed by the Arabs, as by so many other nations,
11  I             |             held it.~ ~Some of these Arabs had embraced the Jewish
12  I             |            Mohammed in person.~ ~The Arabs, with their well-known fickleness,
13  I             |              era, was an Arab of the Arabs,~ ~ ./. and one of the greatest
14  I             |            men as Abu Bekr and Omar, Arabs of the noblest birth, ranged
15  I             |            also frequented by Jewish Arabs, and the influence of their
16  I             |            Islâm, was not new to the Arabs, but it was distasteful,
17  I             |             appealed forcibly to the Arabs on many grounds. Compared
18  I             |            and the polytheism of the Arabs who were his contemporaries.
19  I             |              so long obscured.~ ~The Arabs made use of a rhymed and
20  I             |              of composition, and the Arabs of the desert in the present
21  I             |             to the genius of the old Arabs; thus the learned grammarian
22  I             |              together with the pagan Arabs of Mecca and the Christians
23  I             |          have seen, was known to the Arabs before Mohammed's time,
24  I             |            and even necessary to the Arabs at the time, became grievous
25  I             |           faith. Rebuke to the pagan Arabs for their idolatry and superstitious
26  I             |             of the time of the pagan Arabs? The Muslims are not to
27  I             | superstitious practices of the pagan Arabs with respect to certain
28  I             |          idolatrous practices of the Arabs: setting apart portions
29  I             |             of the time of the pagan Arabs? The Muslims are not to
30  I             | superstitious practices of the pagan Arabs with respect to certain
31  I             |         military service. The desert Arabs are among the worst of the '
32  I             |         Medînah and the neighbouring Arabs blamed for holding back
33  I             |            honey is lawful. The rich Arabs are reproved for~ ~ ./. 
34  I             |              Mohammed's mission. The Arabs reject the book of Moses
35  I             |          cattle whereon to ride. The Arabs are rebuked for attributing
36  I             |          were drowned. Answer to the Arabs who objected that Jesus
37  I             |            and excuses of the desert Arabs with regard to the expedition
38  I             |             The laws of divorce. The Arabs are admonished, by the fate
39  I             |         idols also worshipped by the Arabs: their fate.~ ~LXXII. THE
40  I             |                  Two families of the Arabs rebuked for contending which
41  I,       II(1)|            quarrels among the Jewish Arabs.~ ~ ./. 
42  I,       II(3)|                           The Jewish Arabs used the first of these
43  I,       II(1)|                                  The Arabs before Mohammed's time had
44  I,       II(4)|                            The other Arabs had attacked them during
45  I,       II(2)|            and demons of the ancient Arabs are so called.~ ~
46  I,      III(1)|             refers here to the Pagan Arabs in Mohammed's time. He seems
47  I,      III(2)|            always used for the pagan Arabs.~ ~ ./. 
48  I,       IV(1)|    colloquial expression used by the Arabs when any one is eating.
49  I,       IV(4)|                 Idols of the ancient Arabs; see p. 40.~ ~
50  I,       IV(1)|                            The pagan Arabs used to cut off the ears
51  I,        V(1)|                          The ancient Arabs always lit a beacon-fire
52  I,        V(1)|           superstitions of the pagan Arabs, and tended to keep alive
53  I,       VI(1)|         superstitious customs of the Arabs with regard to their cattle.~ ~
54  I,       VI(2)|                            The pagan Arabs used to set apart certain
55  I,       VI(1)|                                  The Arabs alternately made it unlawful
56  I,      VII(1)|         extinct tribe of the ancient Arabs.~ ~
57  I,      VII(2)|            two tribes of the ancient Arabs, extinct in Mohammed's time,
58  I,       IX(1)|             two tribes of idolatrous Arabs. Too confident in their
59  I,       IX(1)|                            The pagan Arabs used to put off the observance
60  I,       IX   |            There came certain desert Arabs that they might be excused;
61  I,       IX   |              work abomination.~ ~The Arabs of the desert are keener
62  I,       IX   |       knowing and wise.~ ~And of the Arabs of the desert are some who
63  I,       IX   |            knows.~ ~[100] And of the Arabs of the desert are some who
64  I,       IX   |           are round About you of the Arabs of the desert, some are
65  I,       IX   |             around about them of the Arabs of the desert, to stay behind
66  I,       XI(1)|             always applied by desert Arabs to going to a spring for
67  I,     XIII(2)|        always hailed with joy by the Arabs as a precursor of rain.~ ~ ./. 
68  I,      XVI(2)|                                  The Arabs used to call the angels '
69  I,      XVI(1)|               of hide' by the desert Arabs.~ ~
70  I,      XVI(2)|                                  The Arabs, like most half-savage tribes,
71 II,     XVII(2)|               literally, 'bird;' the Arabs, like the ancient Romans,
72 II,     XVII(1)|            for the false gods of the Arabs, and the existence of those
73 II,     XVII(1)|                                  The Arabs whom Mohammed addressed
74 II,    XVIII(1)|         taken from camel riding. The Arabs do not call the camel 'the
75 II,       XX(1)|                                  The Arabs used to light fires to guide
76 II,       XX(3)|        common use amongst the desert Arabs.~ ~ ./. 
77 II,       XX(2)|           especially detested by the Arabs as being characteristic
78 II,     XXIV(1)|                                  The Arabs in Mohammed's time were
79 II,      XXV(1)|                          The ancient Arabs used this formula when they
80 II,   XXXIII(1)|           the Jewish tribes with the Arabs of Mecca, Negd and Tehâmah,
81 II,   XXXIII(2)|                                  The Arabs were in the habit of divorcing
82 II,   XXXIII   |            be in the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you!
83 II,   XXXIII(2)|          verse. The relations of the Arabs to their adopted children
84 II,   XXXIII(2)|          scenes-especially among the Arabs of Edom and Moab-which gave
85 II,     XXXV(1)|        mountain sides of Arabia. The Arabs of the desert to this day
86 II,  XXXVIII(1)|       applied to the pegs with which Arabs fasten their tents.~ ~
87 II,      XLI(1)|              are expected to read it Arabs?' This is paraphrased by
88 II,    XLIII(2)|                                  The Arabs objected that Jesus was
89 II,     XLIV(3)|                        The Himyarite Arabs, whose kings were called
90 II,      XLV(1)|             spoken of by the ancient Arabs as 'days.'~ ~ ./. 
91 II,   XLVIII   |            mighty hire.~ ~The desert Arabs who were left behind 1 shall
92 II,   XLVIII   |        little.~ ~Say to those desert Arabs who were left behind, 'Ye
93 II,     XLIX(1)|                           Two of the Arabs wishing to speak with Mohammed
94 II,     XLIX   |             aware!~ ~ ./. The desert Arabs say, 'We believe.' Say, '
95 II,     LIII(2)|          worship amongst the ancient Arabs.~ ~
96 II,      LVI(1)|                          The ancient Arabs produced fire by the friction
97 II,    LXXII(1)|                            The pagan Arabs when they found themselves
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