 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 564 pages
...all dressed in the white ihram, — some sat ,/M their camels, mules or asses, reading the Koran — some ejaculated loud prayers, whilst others cursed...quarrelled with those near them, who were choking up the passages.' Having cleared a narrow pass in the mountains, the plain of Arafat opened out. Here the... | |
 | Child rearing - 1832 - 280 pages
...some sat on their camels, mules, or asses, reading the Koran, — some ejaculated loud prayers, while others cursed their drivers, and quarrelled with those near them, who were choking up the passages.' Having cleared a narrow pass in the mountains, the plain of Arafat opened out. Here the... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1833 - 476 pages
...march is necessarily attended with great confusion. " Of the half-naked hajjis," says Burckhardt, " all dressed in the white ihram, some sat reading the...their drivers, and quarrelled with those near them who choked up the passage." Leaving Muna the plain of Arafat opens through a rocky defile in the mountains... | |
 | George Bush - 1833 - 288 pages
...some sat on their camels, mules, or asses, reading the Koran, — some ejaculated loud prayers, while others cursed their drivers, and quarrelled with those near them, who were choking up the passages.' Having cleared a narrow pass in the mountains, the plain of Arafat opened out. Here the... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Religions - 1834 - 562 pages
...some sat on their camels, mules, or asses, reading the Koran, — some ejaculated loud prayers, while others cursed their drivers. and quarrelled with those near them, who were choking up the passages.' Having cleared a narrow pass in the mountains, the plain of Arafat opened out. Here the... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1834 - 436 pages
...march is necessarily attended with great confusion. " Of the half-naked hajjis," says Burckhardt, " all dressed in the white ihram, some sat reading the Koran upon their camels; some ejaculating loud prayers ; while others cursed their drivers, and quarrelled with those near them who... | |
 | Samuel Green (Baptist minister, Lion St. Chapel, Walworth.) - Islam - 1840 - 442 pages
...some sat on their camels, mules, or asses, reading the Koran, — some ejaculated loud prayers, while others cursed their drivers, and quarrelled with those near them, who were choking up the passages.' Having cleared a narrow pass in the mountains, the plain of Arafat opened out. Here the... | |
 | Samuel Green - Islam - 1840 - 430 pages
...ihram—some sat on their camels, mules, or asses, reading the Koran,—some ejaculated loud prayers, while others cursed their drivers, and quarrelled with those near them, who were choking up the passages.' Having cleared a LIFE OP MAHOMET. 59 narrow pass in the mountains, the plain of Arafat opened... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...thought meritorious to make the six hours' journey to Arafat on foot, particularly if the pilgrim goei barefooted. Many hadjys did so; and I preferred this...valleys, at a very slow march, for two hours, to Wady Muña, in the narrow entrance of which, great confusion again occurred. The law enjoins that the hadjys... | |
 | George Bush - Islam - 1858 - 278 pages
...some sat on their camels, mules, or asses, reading the Koran, — some ejaculated loud prayers, while others cursed their drivers, and quarrelled with those near them, who were choking up the passages.' Having cleared a narrow pass in the mountains, the plain of Arafat opened out. Here the... | |
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We were several hours,' says Burckhardt, ' before we could reach the outskirts of the town, so great was the crowd of camels. Of the half-naked Hadjis, all dressed in the white ihram — some sat on their camels, mules, or asses, reading the Koran, —... 