The Chronology of Ancient Nations: An English Version of the Arabic Text of the Athâr-ul-Bâkiya of Albîrûnî, Or "Vestiges of the Past"Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain & Ireland, 1879 - 464 pagini |
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The Chronology of Ancient Nations: An English Version of the Arabic Text of ... Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī Vizualizare completă - 1879 |
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Pagina 22 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth ; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Pagina 19 - The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house ; his hands shall also finish it ; and thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent me unto you.
Pagina 27 - Gilshah, who was, according to them, the first man. In denying the Deluge, the Indians, Chinese, and the various nations of the East, concur with them. Some, however, of the Persians admit the fact of the Deluge, but they describe it in a different way from what it is described in the books of the prophets.
Pagina 210 - During this time people put food in the halls of the dead and drink on the roofs of the houses, believing that the spirits of their dead during these days come out from the places of their reward or their punishment, that they go to the dishes laid out for them, imbibe their strength and suck their taste. They fumigate their houses with juniper, that the dead may enjoy its smell.
Pagina 131 - May God inflict on them ignominy in this world, and show to them and to others their weakness ! "As to the Amir, the glorious Prince, may God give a long duration to his reign (to whom this book is dedicated). His Majesty, the Khalif, addressed him in a letter, and offered to him titles such as those compounded with the word Daula (eg Saif-al-daula, Husdm-al-daula, etc.).
Pagina 55 - Epagomenae and put them at the end of that month, to which the turn of intercalation had proceeded on the last 40 occasion of intercalating. And as this subject was of great importance and of general use to high and low, to the king and to the subjects, and as it is required to be treated with knowledge, and to be carried out in conformity with nature (ie with real time), they used to postpone intercalation, when its time happened to occur at a period when the condition of the empire was disturbed...
Pagina 191 - Mani, and when he had found him, he said : ' This man has come forward calling people to destroy the world. It will be necessary to begin by destroying him, before anything of his plans should be realised.
Pagina 13 - Khwfirizm and Sogdiana, and by all who had the same religion as the Persians, who were subject to them, and were considered as their kinsmen, during the time when their empire flourished. I have heard that the Peshdadian kings of the Persians, those who ruled over the entire world, reckoned the year as 360 days, and each 10 month as 30 days, without any addition and subtraction ; that they intercalated one month in every sixth year, which they called "intercalary month...
Pagina 205 - Tiragan, so called on account of the identity of the name of the month and the day. Of the two causes to which it...
Pagina 92 - ... not prove a long duration of the human life, and the huge size of human bodies, and what else has been related to be beyond the limits of possibility. For similar matters appear in the course of time in manifold shapes. There are certain things which are bound to certain times, within which they turn round in a certain order, and which undergo transformations as long as there is a possibility of their existing. If they, now, are not observed as long as they are in existence, people think them...