"Muhammedan" Quotes from Famous Books
... Muhammadan Period. Seventh to fifteenth centuries. Characterized by great amounts of glazed pottery. Smaller antiquities found in cemeteries or on ruined sites, the earliest transitional, and related to Coptic examples of the ... — How to Observe in Archaeology • Various
... about the middle of the sixth century of our era, and died about the year 615, forty-five years after the birth of the prophet Muhammad, and seven years before the Hijra—the Flight to Medina—with which the Muhammadan era begins. His father was a noble Absian knight. The romance makes him the son of an Abyssinian slave, who is finally discovered to be a powerful princess. His skin was black. He was despised by his father and family and set to tend their camels. His extraordinary ... — Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner |