Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights

CHAPTER I.

RELIGION.

The confession of the Muslim's faith is briefly made in these words,--"There is no deity but God: Moḥammad is God's Apostle,"--which imply a belief and observance of everything that Moḥammad taught to be the word or will of God. In the opinion of those who are commonly called orthodox, and termed Sunnees, the Mohammadan code is founded ...