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... tomb of the Nebbee Yunis , or Jonah , riding about two or three hours in an easterly or north- easterly direction . It seemed the highest point in all this part of the mountain , and near it more south is the mountain of the Nebbee ...
... tomb of the Nebbee Yunis , or Jonah , riding about two or three hours in an easterly or north- easterly direction . It seemed the highest point in all this part of the mountain , and near it more south is the mountain of the Nebbee ...
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... tombs and caverns there . Over the three former streams many a ride have I had , in dark and troublous times , through the desolate plain which spreads from Ladikeeh , for some eighteen miles south - east , to my house on the lower ...
... tombs and caverns there . Over the three former streams many a ride have I had , in dark and troublous times , through the desolate plain which spreads from Ladikeeh , for some eighteen miles south - east , to my house on the lower ...
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... tomb of Omar ibn - Abd - il - Azeez , as having no Zawiyel or garden , and gives as the reason , " that there were in the country a kind of impure heretics ( Rawafid , followers of Ali ) , who hate the ten com- panions , and every one ...
... tomb of Omar ibn - Abd - il - Azeez , as having no Zawiyel or garden , and gives as the reason , " that there were in the country a kind of impure heretics ( Rawafid , followers of Ali ) , who hate the ten com- panions , and every one ...
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... tombs on every high hill still remain , and are visited by the Ansai- reeh of to - day , the Gnostic ideas may well have been introduced into their religion in its cradle in the East , for that religion certainly came thence , and ...
... tombs on every high hill still remain , and are visited by the Ansai- reeh of to - day , the Gnostic ideas may well have been introduced into their religion in its cradle in the East , for that religion certainly came thence , and ...
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... tomb of Ali , which is erected in the desert four or five days ' journey from the ruins of Bagdad . They have also another place of devotion near Mecca , whither they make a secret pilgrimage whenever an opportunity offers , but I have ...
... tomb of Ali , which is erected in the desert four or five days ' journey from the ruins of Bagdad . They have also another place of devotion near Mecca , whither they make a secret pilgrimage whenever an opportunity offers , but I have ...
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