... it, of replanting the only true and ancient one professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and all the prophets, by destroying the gross idolatry into which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and weeding out the corruptions and superstitions... Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 3991823Full view - About this book
| Samuel Kasha Nweeya - Iran - 1913 - 504 pages
...countrymen had fallen, and weeding out the corruption and superstitions which the later Jews and Christiansi had, as he thought, introduced into their religion,...consisted chiefly in the worship of one only God. Whether this was the effect of enthusiasm or only a design to raise himself to the supreme government... | |
| Samuel Kasha Nweeya - Iran - 1913 - 508 pages
...countrymen had fallen, and weeding out the corruption and superstitions which the later Jews and Christiansi had, as he thought, introduced into their religion,...consisted chiefly in the worship of one only God. Whether this was the effect of enthusiasm or only a design to raise himself to the supreme government... | |
| Luther S. Luedtke - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 316 pages
...according to George Sale, were "weeding out the corruptions and superstitions which the latter ]ews and Christians had, as he thought, introduced into...which consisted chiefly in the worship of one only GOD."93 Picart's "Discourse on the Mohammedans" began similarly by representing the "Religion of the... | |
| Elwood Morris Wherry - Koran - 2000 - 410 pages
...destroying the gross idolatry into which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and weeding out the corruptions and superstitions which the latter...consisted chiefly in the worship of one only GOD. Whether this was the effect of enthusiasm, or only a opiniors « design to raise himself to the supreme... | |
| Bryan S. Turner - Civilization, Islamic - 2000 - 608 pages
...destroying the gross idolatry into which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and weeding out the corruptions and superstitions which the latter Jews and Christians had, as he Source: G. Sale The Koran or, Alcoran of Mohammed, nd, London and New York, Frederick Warae and Co.,... | |
| 1861 - 639 pages
...destroying the gross idolatry into which the generality of his countrymen had fallen, and weeding out the corruptions and superstitions which the latter...purity, which consisted chiefly in the worship of the one only GOD. Whether this was the effect of enthusiasm, or only a design to raise himself to the... | |
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