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History Of The Moorish Empire In Europe
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Author : Samuel Parsons Scott
language : en
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Release Date : 1977
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Author : Samuel Parsons Scott
language : en
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Release Date : 2021
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History Of The Moorish Empire In Europe
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Author : Samuel Parsons Parsons Scott
language : en
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Release Date : 1977
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History Of The Moorish Empire In Europe Complete
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Author : Samuel Parsons Scott
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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Few countries of the globe present to the eye of the traveller so desolate, so forbidding an aspect as that vast and arid peninsula which, embracing an area of more than a million square miles, stretches away through twenty-four degrees of latitude, from the confines of the Syrian Desert to the shores of the Indian Ocean. Its surface, while far from possessing the monotonous character with which popular fancy is accustomed to invest it, is, for the greater part of its extent, destitute of those physical advantages which tempt either the cupidity or the enterprise of man. Its coasts are low and unhealthy. Its harbors are few and unsafe. Its mineral resources are to this day unexplored and unknown. Its impenetrable deserts, guarded by a fierce and martial population, have always set at defiance the best-matured plans of invasion and conquest. In the principality of Yemen, appropriately named The Happy, the cultivation of the soil has flourished from time immemorial, but in almost every other province the returns of agricultural labor are discouraging and unremunerative. Illimitable wastes of sand, over which sweeps the deadly blast of the simoom; mountains, bald, craggy, and volcanic, whose slopes are destitute of every trace of vegetable life; plains strewn with blocks of tufa and basalt; valleys dotted here and there with stunted shrubs, or encrusted with a saline deposit similar to that upon the shores of the Dead Sea; a soil impregnated with nitre; such are, and have been from prehistoric times, the physical features of the Arabian Peninsula. No stream worthy of the name of river, dispensing wealth and fertility in its winding course to the sea, flows through this dreary and inhospitable land. Wherever a spring was found, a permanent settlement arose, and the black tents of the Bedouin gave place to huts of sun-dried bricks, while the dignity of the sheik, who now aspired to the title of prince, was satisfied with a dwelling superior to those of his subjects only in point of size. The oasis, generally suggestive of shady groves and purling streams, is often, in reality, nothing more than the dry bed of a mountain torrent, along whose borders a little withered vegetation furnishes the hardy camel with pasture, and where a scanty supply of brackish water can, by laborious digging, be obtained. Overhead glitters a sky of brass, unflecked by a single cloud, and, morning and evening, the rays of the sun, mellowed and refracted by the vapors of the earth, clothe every elevation with scarlet, azure, and violet tints which, blended in exquisite harmony, rival the splendors of the rainbow; developing, under the effects of radiation, optical illusions and charming pictures of the mirage, attributed by superstitious ignorance to the influence of enchantment. The unbroken stillness of the Desert, the wide expanse of uninhabited territory, produce a sense of mental depression, accompanied by an apprehension of danger from the convulsions of nature and the violence of man, which no experience seems able to remove; affecting even the sturdy camel-driver, familiar with these solitudes from childhood, who shudders as he urges his string of panting beasts over the drifted sand-heaps and through the mountain fastness, the reputed haunt of evil genii and the vantage ground from whence the murderous banditti oft beset the caravan. So deeply-rooted and tenacious is this feeling that the Arab regards a journey successfully performed as just cause for congratulation, and indeed not inferior to a triumph, as is indicated by his familiar proverb, “Travel is a victory.”
History Of The Moorish Empire In Europe
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Author : Samuel P. Scott
language : en
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Release Date : 1977
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History Of The Moorish Empire In Europe
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Author : S.P. SCOTT
language : en
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Release Date : 1904
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History Of The Moorish Empire In Europe
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Author : S P 1846-1929 Scott
language : en
Publisher: Arkose Press
Release Date : 2015-10-15
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Author : S. P. Scott
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Release Date : 1904
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History Of The Moorish Empire Vol 2 Of 3
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Author : S. P. Scott
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-23
History Of The Moorish Empire Vol 2 Of 3 written by S. P. Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-23 with categories.
Excerpt from History of the Moorish Empire, Vol. 2 of 3: In Europe Classic Souvenirs of Sicily - Its Great Natural Advantages - It becomes the Stronghold of the Papacy - Invasion of the Arabs - They besiege Syracuse - Strength of that City - Failure of the Enterprise - Capture of Palermo - Rapid Progress of the Moslems - Condition of Italy - Arab Alliance with Naples - Messina taken - Betrayal of Castrogiovanni - Rout of the Greeks near Syracuse - Feuds of the Conquerors - Their Successes in Italy - Second Siege of Syracuse - The City is stormed and destroyed by Ibn-Mohammed - Peril of Rome - Appearance of the Normans in the South of Europe - They invade Sicily - Siege of Palermo - Subjection of the Island - Influence of the Moslems over their Conquerors - General Condition of Sicily - Its Civilization - Palermo and its Environs Science, Art, and Literature - The Great Work of Edrisi - Arab Occupation of Sardinia, Crete, Corsica, and Malta. The island of Sicily, by reason of its geographical position, its extraordinary fertility, and its commercial advantages, was one of the most renowned and coveted domains of the ancient world. Its situation, near the centre of the Mediterranean, afforded rare facilities for participation in the trade and enjoyment of the culture of those polished nations whose shores were washed by that famous sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.