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. 1883 Excerpt: ... rule itself was well conceived. In no other way would it have been possible to reconcile the jealous susceptibilities of tribal rivalry.3 Safwan, Soheil, and other great chiefs of the Coreish, who fell into a lower class because they had not joined the Prophet till after the capture of Mecca, refused at first any ...
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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. 1883 Excerpt: ... rule itself was well conceived. In no other way would it have been possible to reconcile the jealous susceptibilities of tribal rivalry.3 Safwan, Soheil, and other great chiefs of the Coreish, who fell into a lower class because they had not joined the Prophet till after the capture of Mecca, refused at first any allowance but the highest: 'We know of none nobler than ourselves, ' they said; 'and less than any other we will not take.' 'Not so, ' answered Omar; 'I give it by priority of faith, and not for noble birth.' 'It is well, ' they replied; and no reason but this, unanswerable because already axiomatic amongthe Moslems, would have satisfied them. Apart from tribal j ealousy, there were twoother sourcesof danger: first, the rivalry between the Bedouin tribes, on the one hand, and the 'Companions, ' or men of Mecca and Medina, on the other; and, second, between the Beni Hashim (the Prophet's family), the Omeyyads, and the Coreish at large;--jealousies which by-and-by developed into large proportions, and threatened the very existence of the Caliphate; but which, held in check by the strong arm of Omar, were 1 See Life of Mahomet, p. 486. 2 The dole was fixed, after a trial of what was sufficient as a monthly ration, for the support of sixty poor persons. Two jaribs of grain, accordingly, was the portion appointed, as a minimum, to which every indigent believer of whatever race was entitled. 'The jealous susceptibilities of the rival tribes were continually breaking forth; as for example, in the election of a Muedzzin in place of the ono killed at Cadcsiya to proclaim the times of prayer to the army, on which a free fight arose that nearly ended in bloodbhed. Omar perpetuates military organisation of Arabs. Register of all Arabs entitled to 11 stipend. now
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