This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ... and considered Islimacl's posterity as the legitimate I mains. From the eighth to the twelfth century they werepowcrful in the East. Under the name of Carmatiuns, they devastated Irak and Syria. In Persia, which they also overran about this time, they were called Meladehs, i. e. impious. One dynasty of the Ishmuelites ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ... and considered Islimacl's posterity as the legitimate I mains. From the eighth to the twelfth century they werepowcrful in the East. Under the name of Carmatiuns, they devastated Irak and Syria. In Persia, which they also overran about this time, they were called Meladehs, i. e. impious. One dynasty of the Ishmuelites conquered Egypt about 910, and another branch founded a kingdom iu Syria, in 1090, under Hassan, who, with his seven successors, is known in the East under the name of the Old Man of the Mountain, whose warriors issuing forth from their fastnesses on predatory expeditions, committed extensive murders; hence the name assassins, given to them in the West, and afterwards adopted as a common name for murderers. At the close of the twelfth century they were subdued by the Mongols; and from that time only a small remnant of them has survived in Persia; and in Syria, in Mount Lebanon. They adore the prophet Ali, as the Deity incarnate, and believe in supernatural communications made by the Imams; and in the transmigration of souls; but deny a paradise and a hell; do not observe the purifications and fasts of the orthodox; and perform their pilgrimages not to Mecca, but to Meschid, the place of Ali's interment, four days' journey from Ragdad. They have no public temples, and their rites are simpler than those of the other Mohammedans. They term themselves Seid, i. e. descendants of the family of Mohammed, and wear the green turban in token of their pretended nobility. Islamism, the orthodox religion of the followers of Mohammed. See MohammedanIsm. The word signifies an entire submission or devotion to the will of another, and especially of God, and thence the security, peace, and prosperity which those who submit themselves enjoy. The profession of f...
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