| John Lewis Burckhardt - Arabian Peninsula - 1829 - 522 pages
...changed every six years, and that the income from several villages in Egypt was set apart at Cairo for the manufacturing of those curtains. successors, Abou...They are said to be placed in the following order : CH The largest being that of Mohammed, and the one above it Abou Beker s. The historian says, that... | |
| 1854 - 412 pages
...pillars, in the interior of which are the tombs of Mohammed, and his two earliest friends and immediate successors, Abou Beker and Omar. As far as I could...catafalques, like that of Ibrahim in the great mosque of Mecca.' The old European tradition of Mohammed's coffin being suspended in the air, is unknown in the... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...about it, and preserving it as a relic. » Burckhardt, however, must be in error when he says, " The tombs are also covered with precious stuffs, and in...catafalques, like that of Ibrahim in the great mosque of Meccah." The eunuchs positively declare that no one ever approaches the tomb, and that he who ventured... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1893 - 634 pages
...agreed even upon so simple a point as this. i Burckhardt, however, must be in error when he says "The tombs are also covered with precious stuffs, and in...catafalques, like that of Ibrahim in the great Mosque of Meccah." The eunuchs positively declare that no one ever approaches the tomb, and that he who ventured... | |
| Richard F. Burton, Sir Richard Francis Burton - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 490 pages
...agreed even upon so simple a point as this. i Burckhardt, however, must be in error when he says "The tombs are also covered with precious stuffs, and in...catafalques, like that of Ibrahim in the great Mosque of Meccah." The eunuchs positively declare that no one ever approaches the tomb, and that he who ventured... | |
| F. E. Peters - Religion - 1996 - 460 pages
...or" which are the tombs of Muhammad, and his two earliest friends and immediate successors, Abu Baler and Omar. As far as I could learn here, these tombs are also covered with previous stuffs, and in the shape of catafalques, ¡ike that oí Ibrahim in the great mosque or Mecca.... | |
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