History of the Imâms and Seyyids of ʼOmân, Teil 77Hakluyt Society, 1871 - 435 Seiten |
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accordingly Ahmed Ahmed-bin-Sảîd Amîr appointed Arabia Arabs army arrival attack authority Azka Azzân Barkah Bedr Bédu Behlâ Benu Benu-Yâs Bombay Government Selections brother camel chiefs coast command death died dispatched Eastern el-Azd el-Bahrein el-Bereimy el-Ghâfiry el-Jabry el-Maâwal el-Mátrah el-Yaárubah encamped er-Rastâk esh-Sharkiyyah ezh-Zhâhirah father followers forthwith forts garrison governor Hadhr Hámed Hamûd hands Hilâl Himyar Hormûz Hujrah Ibâdhiyah Imâm Imâm's Imâmate inhabitants island joined Kâdhi Kais Khalf Khalifah Khawarij killed Kurân large force latter levies marched Máskat messenger Muham Muhammad Muhammad-bin Muhammad-bin-Khalfan Muhammad-bin-Nâsir Muhenna Muslims Mútlak Nakhl Nâsir Nejd Nezwa night Nizâriyyah Omân Omânis ordered party Persian Gulf Portuguese possession proceeded reached replied residence returned Sa'id Såîd sect Seif Seif-bin-Sultân seized Semäîl sent Seyyid Sảîd Seyyid Sâlim Seyyid Thuwainy Shâh sheikh ships Sohâr succeeded Sultân surrendered Suûd Thereupon took town tribes troops Tûrky uncle Wâdi Wahabee Wahhâbis Wâli wrote Yabrîn Yemen Zanzibar
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Seite 377 - Kharejites: their name properly signifies sectaries or adherents in general, but is peculiarly used to denote those of Ali Ebn Abi Taleb ; who maintain him to be lawful Khalif and Imam, and that the supreme authority, both in spirituals and temporals, of right belongs to his descendants, notwithstanding they may be deprived of it by the injustice of others, or their own fear.
Seite 416 - It is, however, a considerable market, being the spot to which the Indian merchants and those of the islands bring their commodities. While the traders of Mesopotamia, Yemen, and Persia import all...
Seite 246 - Agent, the only Force, the only Act existing throughout the universe, and leave to all beings else, matter or spirit, instinct or intelligence, physical or moral, nothing but pure, unconditional passiveness, alike in movement or in quiescence, in action or in capacity. The sole power, the sole motor, movement, energy, and deed is God ; the rest is downright inertia and mere instrumentality, from the highest archangel down to the simplest atom of creation. Hence, in this one sentence,
Seite 246 - are words simply tantamount in English to the negation of any deity save one alone ; and thus much they certainly mean in Arabic, but they imply much more also. Their full sense is, not only to deny absolutely and unreservedly all plurality, whether of nature or of person, in the Supreme Being, not only to establish the unity of the Unbegetting and...
Seite 247 - And if ye fear that they cannot observe the ordinances of God, it shall be no crime in either of them on account of that for which the wife shall redeem herself.
Seite ciii - It is to extend to your respective successors, and is to be held to be a final and permanent arrangement, compensating the ruler of Muscat for the abandonment of all claims upon Zanzibar and adjusting the inequality between the two inheritances derived from your father, His late Highness Syud Saeed, the venerated friend of the British Government, which two inheritances are to be henceforward distinct and separate. I am, Your Highness' FORT WILLIAM, ") Sincere friend and well wisher, The Ind AprillWl.
Seite xxix - ... is to be conveyed, leaving apertures at regular distances, to afford light and air to those who are occasionally sent to keep it clean. In this manner water is frequently conducted from a distance of six or eight miles, and an unlimited supply is thus obtained. These channels are usually about four feet broad and two feet deep, and contain a clear rapid stream.
Seite 416 - While the traders of Mesopotamia, Yemen, and Persia import all silk and purple cloths, flax, cotton, hemp, mash, wheat, barley, millet, rye, and all other sorts of comestibles and pulse, which articles form objects of exchange, those from India import great quantities of spices, and the inhabitants of the island live by what they gain in their capacity of brokers to both parties. The island contains about five hundred Jews. It is ten days' passage by sea to El-Katif, a city with about five thousand...
Seite xxix - Few of the large towns or oases but had four or five of these rivulets running into them. The isolated spots to which water is thus conveyed possess a soil so fertile, that nearly every grain, fruit, or vegetable, common' to India, Arabia, or Persia, is produced almost spontaneously...
Seite 29 - They also turned the precepts of that book into allegory, teaching that prayer was the symbol of obedience to their Imam, and fasting that of silence, or concealing their dogmas from strangers : they also believed fornication to be the sin of infidelity, and the guilt thereof to be incurred by those who revealed the mysteries of their religion or paid not a blind obedience to their chief. They are said to have...