"رحلات في مناطق مختلفة من أفريقيا وآسيا العظمى لبضع سنوات. وصف إمبراطوريات بلاد فارس وهندوستان خاصةً: بالتداخل مع بعض الأحداث الهامة كما دارت في تلك المناطق أثناء تلك العصور اللاحقة. كذلك الأمر بالنسبة إلى الممالك الشهيرة الغنية الأخرى في الهند الشرقية والجزر المجاورة. والربط بين ديانة ولغة وعادات وأعراف كل منها على حدة: بالإضافة إلى ذكر ملاحظات صحيحة عن كل منها." [‎٣‎٢‎٠] (٤٤٨/٣٤٣)

Languages.
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Twenty two
Twenty three
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Perfian,
Dotaheefi
Se-beefl
Char-he eft
Pounce-be eft
Se
Chehel
Phafi
Haftat
Ha ft tat
Natvat
Satt
Dahamtj or hatar
Turkifli,
Tgarmy eckee
Tgarmy exxch
Tgar my devart
Tgarmy heajh
Otooz.
Kurk
Bile
Altivifiy
Tatemifh
Sexan
Dux an
Vfe
Been
Vfe been
Meloon
Arabic,
Tletyne
Arhaim
Xamfim
Sitteem
Sebaime
Temanine
T^iffein
Meye
Elf
Afetelf
Meloon
Now concerning their Religion, (if fuch I may term it, being as one fays rather a con^
fufed hotch-potch or mafs of fuperftition) at this day it varies not from the Turks in any
particle of the Alcoran ^ yet account they one the other Hereticks, being no lefs divi
ded in their profefTion than we and the Papalins. A Schifm begun Anno Domini 1400. by a
Syet of Ardaveily the better to advance the Sophian Title derived from Mortis Ally who
was both Kinfman and Son-in-law to their Prophet ; which Ally^ albeit by thofe
Relations he bad right to fit as Kalyph at Meccha after Mahomet, yet three others ftept
up before him, who during their lives excluded him. Thefe were Abuboker? Omer, and
07jman\ by the Turks venerably accounted of, but hy the Perfians (as appears by the
Commination invented by Siet Gunei) reputed Hereticks: from whence arifes fuch ha
tred betwixt thefe two mighty Monarchs, that to Europe's good they divide, and pro-
fecute each other as it were with hatred irreconcileable.
MA HO ME T (Son of Abdar a Pagan and Emma a Jew) was born at Jathreb (or
Jtrarip, Jezrab PoflelluiXalh it) in Arabia, the year from the Creation 4544. and of Chrift
our blelfed Lord and Saviour $7^.Juftinian at that time governing the Roman Empire, and
Cozjrhoes (Father to Hormifda) the Per fan.
His Parents were poor, therefore as an Apprentice with much patience he ferved
Zayed-ben-Hartah a rich Merchant*, who dying, left his Servant a confiderable Legacy:
but by reafon of thofe broils 'twixt Cozrhoes and the Romans, Traffick decayed, and molt
men were compelled to dance after JSellona's Mufick ^ fo as Mahomet amongfl: others en-
lifted himfelf and ferved under Heraclim, and after that the P^r/z^r, not caring who
w^as vanquifhed, fo he gained. Nor did he erre in his imagination: for by the great
Eftate left hini by Ben-Hart ah and acquired in the Wars, he had the credit to command
fo many Tartars and Arabians, as at length he adventured to fet up for himfelf", and had
the hap firft to beat the Chriftian Forces, and foon after the Perfian, which got him more
reputation: infomuch as having acquainted his Army with the difcord at that time hap-
ning in the Roman State, (for fo it was that Phocas having flain his Mafter Mauritius the
Emperour,and allowed Boniface the Title ofUniverfal Bi{hop,fo much to the diflatisfadi-
on of the Chriftians, that agreeable to the Charader Gregory the Great gave John the
Conftantinopolitan'Patriarch they called them Antichrift; and not without fome fiiew
of reafon, feeing that fixty fix good Bilhop^ of Rome from Linus (feven years after the
PaQion) to that Pope, more minded to feed Chrifts flock, than to arrogate to them-
lelves Lordlhip over men *, and much lefs an univerfal Supremacy) conceived himfelf
that He was ordained from the beginning of the Creation, not only to eclipfe the pride
of that Pope, but withall to inftrud the world in a better way than either Mofes did
the Jews, or Chrift the Chriftians ^ moft blafphemoufly withal giving out That he was
the Comforter promifed (and yet lays he came to give his Law by the Sword and not by
Miracle) and to advance the Arabian name and dignity above all other in the Univerfe.
The Jews alfo feeing his glorious rife, cryed him up for the Meifiah, till they perceived
him to eat Camels fiefh, and then they abhorred him: but the illiterate Savages admire,
and (though fome thought meanly of him) moft part hoped he could effed his promi-
fes, and accordingly credit his pretended Revelations.
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