The Respective Peculiarities in the Creeds of the Mahometan and the Hindu which Stand in the Way of Conversion to the Christian Faith: An Essay ... |
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... Turks The Crusades The Ottomans The Fall of Constantinople The causes of the success of Mahometanism Mahometan Sects - 14 15 17 18 19 20 PART I. Peculiarities in the Creed of the Mahometan , which stand in the way of Conversion to the ...
... Turks The Crusades The Ottomans The Fall of Constantinople The causes of the success of Mahometanism Mahometan Sects - 14 15 17 18 19 20 PART I. Peculiarities in the Creed of the Mahometan , which stand in the way of Conversion to the ...
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... Turks , a Tartarian nation , who emerged from the Scythian wilderness . The throne of the Caliphs , shaken by the Ghaznavide and Seljukian sultans , was overthrown by the successors of Ghenghis Khan . The kingdom of Ghazna was ...
... Turks , a Tartarian nation , who emerged from the Scythian wilderness . The throne of the Caliphs , shaken by the Ghaznavide and Seljukian sultans , was overthrown by the successors of Ghenghis Khan . The kingdom of Ghazna was ...
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... Turks from the Tigris to Hindustan . At his death the fairest part of Asia was subject to his laws . Twelve hundred princes , or the sons of princes , stood before his throne , and two hundred thousand soldiers marched under his banners ...
... Turks from the Tigris to Hindustan . At his death the fairest part of Asia was subject to his laws . Twelve hundred princes , or the sons of princes , stood before his throne , and two hundred thousand soldiers marched under his banners ...
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... Turks had brought them to the full front of Constantinople itself , and the Greek Empire tottered on the verge of de- struction . We are now arrived at the period of the Crusades . By these wars Europe was preserved from desola- tion ...
... Turks had brought them to the full front of Constantinople itself , and the Greek Empire tottered on the verge of de- struction . We are now arrived at the period of the Crusades . By these wars Europe was preserved from desola- tion ...
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... Turks , and the terror which their successes excited in the Greek Emperors , have already been mentioned among the proximate causes of the Crusades ; and in the Ottoman descendants of the same race , after the apparent extinction of its ...
... Turks , and the terror which their successes excited in the Greek Emperors , have already been mentioned among the proximate causes of the Crusades ; and in the Ottoman descendants of the same race , after the apparent extinction of its ...
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