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'The Arabian Horse, his country and his people, with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations, also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names' [‎12] (29/500)

The record is made up of 1 volume (411 pages). It was created in 1894. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS CONSULTED.
17. Cavalry: Its History and Tactics. By
Capt. L. E. Nolan, 15th Hussars. 3d edit.
i860.
18. El Kamsa (Al Kham-sa) : II cavallo Arabo
Puro Sangue : studio di sedici anni, in
Siria, Palestina, Egitto e nei Deserti dell
Arabia; di Carlo Guarmani di Livorno.
Traduzione dal manoscritto originale Fran-
cese del dottor Ansaldo Felleti di Bologna.
Bologna, 1864.
19. ^Encyclopaedia Britannica. 9th edit.
1875-1888.
20. Horse-Dealing in Syria, 1854. Two
Articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Maga
zine, vol. Ixxxvi.
21. Horses, English and Eastern. By Sir E.
H. Doyle. Fortnightly Review, vol. xxix.,
N.S.
22. Horse, Natural History of the. By
Lieut.-Col. C. Ham. Smith, forming vol.
xii. of the Naturalists' Library, edited by
Sir W. Jardine, Bart. Edinburgh, 1843.
23. Horses of the Sahara, and the Manners
of the Desert, The. By E. Daumas.
With Commentaries by the Emir Abdel
Kader. Translated from the French by
James Hutton. London : W. H. Allen,
1863.
24. Horse, The History of the. By W. C. L.
Martin. London, 1845.
25. Horse, The Book of the. By S. Sidney.
London and New York: Cassell, Fetter,
& Galpin.
26. India Sporting Review, edited by "Abel
East." N.S. Calcutta, 1856 to 1857.
27. Itineraire de Jerusalem au Neged Sep
tentrional. Par M. Guarmani. Extrait
du bulletin de la Societe' de Geographic.
(Nov. 1865.)
28. Journey to the Wahabee Capital of
Riyadh in Central Arabia, Report on
a. By Lieut.-Col. L. Felly, Political Resi
dent Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Bombay (printed for
Govt.), 1866.
29. *Kur-an, Al. Medina, c. a.d. 635 et 650.
[Every Kur-an extant, no matter when copied
or printed, might properly bear the later
of the above two dates. There is nothing
to show that the Prophet made any pro
vision for the handing down of his " revela
tions " in a firm and solid form. He caused,
indeed, to be recorded, in Su-ras} the
heart-moving words which came to him;
but the freed slave Zaid who performed
this service observed no method. The
tablets which received the writings con
sisted of flat stones, skins, the woody parts
of palm-branches, and the like. 2 After the
Prophet's death, Zaid collected these liter
ally " fugitive pieces," and made a fair copy.
This first transcript, traditionally known as
As Sithf or The Leaves, was afterwards
destroyed, so as to give finality to a later
edition which was made, in U'th-man's
Caliphate, by Zaid and three associates.
It is known from a sure tradition that the
four men wrote exactly four copies; and
all later manuscripts are reproductions of
this second redaction. The text thus
formed by the care of the Caliph U'th-
man was accepted at the time with won
derful unanimity by those who had heard
the Kur-an from the mouth of the Prophet.
In our day, an eminent European critic
pronounces the opinion that it " contains
none but genuine elements—though some
times in very strange order."]
30. Layard, Sir Henry; *Nineveh and its
Remains, by. 3d edit. 2 vols. 1849.
31. Layard, Sir Henry; "^Discoveries in the
Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with
Travels in Armenia, Kurd-istan, and
the Desert. 1853.
1 In late Hebrew, shti-rah means a series: or, a roiv
of stones in a building, whence a line of writing. Accord
ingly, it is supposed by European investigators that Muham
mad borrowed the term "Su-ra" from the Jewish parlance
of the period. If this be so, it is not surprising that the word
puzzled the old Muslim scholars. Even now many of their
successors exercise their ingenuity in finding Arabic roots
for it. But if the Arabs have the orthodoxy, the Germans
have the etymology.
The constituents of the written Kur-an appear in 114
SA-ras, each of which bears its own title, generally one of
the leading words which occur in it. In translations, Stl-ra
is commonly rendered by "chapter." But it is only in part
that the division into Su-ras corresponds with the separate
"revelations"; and in these pages we write, not Ch., but
S., for Su-ra.
Many add the shoulder-blades {ak-tdf) of sheep to this
narration: and such have the support of the commenta
tor Bu-kha-ri {v. Ki-tdbu V tafsir, vol. v. p. 196, Egypt,
edit.)

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The Arabian Horse, his country and his people, with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations, also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names.

Author: Major-General William Tweedie, Formerly HBM's Consul-General, Baghdad, and Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. for the Government of India in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .

Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1894.

Physical description: xix, 411p,., 4 octavo.

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1 volume (411 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume.

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Dimensions: 322mm x 250mm

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