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 1  I             |          Arabia or Gazîrat el 'Arab, 'the Arabian Peninsula,'
 2  I             |      Brave and chivalrous, the Arab was always ready to defend
 3  I             |   ordinary occupations, for an Arab looked on work or agriculture
 4  I             |       offices. The death of an Arab, however, was revenged with
 5  I             |   freedom of the desert.~ ~The Arab, therefore, peopled the
 6  I             |       principal deities of the Arab pantheon were-Allâh ta'âlah,
 7  I             |  significance.~ ~In short, the Arab of Mohammed's time was what
 8  I,        0(1)|   however ingenious, is, as an Arab would say, bârid, singularly
 9  I             |      the third Caliph, a young Arab beau, also embraced Islam
10  I             |       left behind with a young Arab under circumstances which
11  I             |        presented itself.~ ~The Arab inhabitants of YaTHrib had
12  I             |     which is inherent in every Arab's breast, he proclaimed
13  I             |     century of our era, was an Arab of the Arabs,~ ~ ./. and
14  I             |   Persian legends being in the Arab mind the very archetype
15  I             |    traditional Semitic belief, Arab as well as Jewish, of the
16  I             |        ears, was and is to the Arab incontrovertible.~ ~In order
17  I             |      always exercised upon the Arab mind, it is necessary to
18  I             |        the world at large. The Arab, on the contrary, was enjoined
19  I             |       was acquainted. With the Arab Christian, the Trinity meant
20  I             |     universal reverence of the Arab for the Kaabah was too favourable
21  I             |     Qur'ân.~ ~That the best of Arab writers has never succeeded
22  I             |       doctrines alone, for the Arab, as we have seen, asserted
23  I             |    sources, though the ancient Arab cult had no doubt borrowed
24  I             |      one for consolidating the Arab tribes, but it is burdensome
25  I             |       the most perfect form of Arab speech. The Qurâis, as the
26  I             | thoughts and ideas of a Bedawî Arab in Bedawî language and metaphor.
27  I             |     and still is natural to an Arab orator, and the necessary
28  I             |     into the spirit of the old Arab poets, Mohammed's contemporaries
29  I,        0(1)|     How natural this was to an Arab may be inferred from the
30  I             |      that the prophet being an Arab should have had a revelation
31  I,       II(1)|       current among the Jewish Arab tribes.~ ~ ./. 
32  I,       II(2)|  higrah he resumed the ancient Arab plan, and turned to the
33  I,      III(1)|       same as that used in the Arab game mâisar, referred to
34  I,      XIV(1)|     This may, according to the Arab idiom, mean either 'battles'
35  I,      XVI(1)|                            The Arab writers mention several
36 II,    XVIII(2)|        waters, would remind an Arab of such a pool.~ ~ ./. 
37 II,      XXI(1)|         48 doctrine and to the Arab notion that the angels are
38 II,   XXXIII(2)|                 The tent of an Arab chief is looked upon as
39 II,   XXXIII(2)|     the sheikh, as the laws of Arab hospitality imperatively
40 II,    LXXXI(1)|        the most valuable of an Arab's possessions, neglect of
41 II, LXXXVIII(1)|  animal as a camel being to an Arab a singular instance of divine
42 II,   LXXXIX(3)|  paradise disappeared. Certain Arab travellers are declared
43 II,      CII(2)|     respective nobility of the Arab tribes, that the Abu Menaf
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