Midway between Asia and Africa lies the giant peninsula of Arabia-the vast, immutable, resplendently mysterious country that bridges the Orient and the Occident. Shaped somewhat like a triangle and somewhat like an oblong, she appears to the vulgar eye more like a boot with its toe lopped off. Three bodies of water-the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf-roll their guardian waves against her rocky, mountainous coasts, while her northern domain is staunchly defended by the impassable Syrian Desert. Perhaps no other country, not even Switzerland, has been so well protected by nature against the assaults-military, economic or religious-of the outside world. Before the seventh century, the fury of the Roman legions and the enthusiasm of martial Christians had been expended in prodigious but wholly futile efforts to subjugate her: the one because its soldiers died of heat and thirst in her almost uninhabitable interior, and the other because its votaries too often restricted their religious zeal to a general consumption of alcohol and to an individual union with more than one wife or concubine.
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Mohammed
Midway between Asia and Africa lies the giant peninsula of Arabia-the vast, immutable, resplendently mysterious country that bridges the Orient and the Occident. Shaped somewhat like a triangle and somewhat like an oblong, she appears to the vulgar eye more like a boot with its toe lopped off. Three bodies of water-the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf-roll their guardian waves against her rocky, mountainous coasts, while her northern domain is staunchly defended by the impassable Syrian Desert. Perhaps no other country, not even Switzerland, has been so well protected by nature against the assaults-military, economic or religious-of the outside world. Before the seventh century, the fury of the Roman legions and the enthusiasm of martial Christians had been expended in prodigious but wholly futile efforts to subjugate her: the one because its soldiers died of heat and thirst in her almost uninhabitable interior, and the other because its votaries too often restricted their religious zeal to a general consumption of alcohol and to an individual union with more than one wife or concubine.
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| ISBN-13: | 9798331402600 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 06/18/2024 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d) |
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