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" ... a graceful collection of slender columns, elegant tracery, and inscriptions admirably carved. Arrived at the western small door in the dwarf wall... "
Travels in Arabia: Comprehending an Account of Those Territories in Hadjaz ... - Page 157
by John Lewis Burckhardt - 1829
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The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, The ..., Volume 3

Arabic literature - 1841 - 782 pages
...is given to a part of the southern portico of the great mnsque of El-Medeeneh, because the Prophet said, " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise."— See Burckhardt's Arabia, page s37. Or doth the remembrance of a beauteous damsel, who hath caused thee...
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The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called, in England, The ..., Volume 3

Arabic literature - 1841 - 796 pages
...ii given to a part of the (outhern portico of the great mosque of El-Medeeneh, because the Prophet said, " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise."— See Burckhardt's Arabia, page 337. Or doth the remembrance of a beauteous damsel, who hath caused thee...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...wooden partition, dividing the southern colonnade from a holy place called El Rodha, or the Garden — a name bestowed upon it by Mohammed, who said, " Between...pulpit of the mosque stands close to this partition, and the name of Rodha belongs strictly to that space only which is between the pulpit and the Hedjra....
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Chambers's pocket miscellany, Volumes 23-24

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...of the mosqne, is a place called El Rodha, or the Garden, pointed out by Mohammed in the words : ' Between my tomb and my pulpit is a garden of the gardens of Paradise.' Excepting as regards the flowers painted upon the columns of the I toclha, there is no other trace...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 39

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 pages
...we entered the celebrated spot called El Rauzah, or the Garden, after a saying of fie Prophet's, ' between my Tomb and my Pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise.' On the north and west sides it is not divided from the rest of the portico ; on the south lies the...
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The Dublin review, Volume 39

1855 - 554 pages
...we entered the celebrated spot called El Rauzah, or the Garden, after a saying of the Prophet's, ' between my Tomb and my Pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise.' On the north and west sides it is not divided from the rest of the portico ; on the south lies the...
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El-Medinah

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1855 - 456 pages
...again, " between my house and my pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise." A third tradition — " Between my tomb and my pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise, and verily my pulpit is in my Full Cistern." Tara,or"upon a Full Cistern of the Cisterns of Paradise,"...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 672 pages
...inscriptions admirably carved. Next is the space called the Garden, after a saying of the Prophet's, " Between my Tomb and my Pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise." This is the most elaborate part of th« mosque. Little (says Mr. Burton) can be said ia its praise...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 686 pages
...inscriptions admirably carved. Next is the space called the Garden, after a saying of the Prophet's, " Between my Tomb and my Pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise." This is the most elaborate part of the mosque. Little (says Mr. Burton) can be said in its praise by...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Madinah and Meccah

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...we entered the celebrated spot called El Rauzah, or the Garden, after a saying of the Prophet's, " between my Tomb and my Pulpit is a Garden of the Gardens of Paradise."J On the north and * This by strangers is called the ilasalla Shafei, or the Place of Prayer...
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