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CHAPTER XI
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ANCIENT ARABIANS WERE CANNIBALISTIC—DAUGHTERS TOO EXPENSIVE TO REAR—CONDITIONS BEFORE THE COMING OF THE PROPHET—THE INJUNCTIONS OF MOHAMMED—HIS LAW AS FOUND IN “AL HIDAYA.”
OF the one remaining tribe of the Semites, a name that has meant so much to the civilization of the world, it is hardly necessary to offer a prelude1. Coming, however, in the mouth of the defenders2 of the latest religion and as the youngest of the Semitic languages, it is necessary to say of the Arabic language that it is nearer akin3 than any of the others to the original archetype, the Ursemitisch, from which they are all derived5; “just as the Arabs, by reason of their geographical6 situation and the monotonous7 uniformity of the desert life, have, in some respects, preserved the Semitic character more purely8 and exhibited it more distinctly than any people of the same family.”252
Arabic history divides itself into three periods, first the Sabean and Himyarite period, from 800 b. c., the date of the oldest south Arabic inscription;170 second, the Pre-Islamic period, 500 to 622 a. d.; and third, the Mohammedan period, beginning with the Flight, or Hijra (or Hegira). Of the first periods the little that we know except the inscriptions9 coming to us by tradition is preserved in the Pre-Islamic poems and the Koran.253
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The second period is known as the Jahiliyya, or Age of Ignorance or Barbarism, and, in the ample remnant of the poetry of that day, we are enabled “to picture the life of those wild days in its larger aspects, accurately10 enough.”254
The pagan Arabs had long been in the habit of burying their infant daughters alive, the excuse offered being that it cost too much to marry them and that their lives were too closely attended with the possibility of disgrace “if they should happen to be made captives or to become scandalous by their behaviour.”255 For these reasons there was never any disguising the fact that the birth of a daughter was considered a great misfortune and the death of one a great happiness.
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incensed
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secrecy
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innovator
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humane
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justified
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宗族( clan的名词复数 ); 氏族; 庞大的家族; 宗派 | |
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unnatural
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conceal
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slayer
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heinous
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使受痛苦,折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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killing
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reigned
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distinguished
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followers
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追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件 | |
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n.教条( doctrine的名词复数 );教义;学说;(政府政策的)正式声明 | |
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treasury
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n.宝库;国库,金库;文库 | |
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Christians
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Christian
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magistrate
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conducive
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maternal
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