Palestine Under the Moslems; A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... populous place. There is an edict in force here, that whosoever commits fornication, there is taken from him a fine of four Dirhams." (Yak., iii. 59; Mar., ii. J 8.) "Sabwayaim (Seboim). One of the cities of the people of Lot." (Yak., iii. 367; Mar., ii, 146.) Finally, under the heading of Ar Rubbah, or Ar Rabbah, the tradition of Lot's Daughters is given again by Yakut in the following words: "Ar Rubbah is a'village on the side of the Ghaur, lying between the lands of the Jordan and Balka Provinces. According to the tradition related by Ibn 'Abbas: When LCit (Lot) fled from his home, he had with him his two daughters, one of whom was called Rubbah and the other Sughar. And the elder of them died, that is Rubbah, near a spring, and was buried there. And they called the spring after her 'Ain Rubbah, and built over it a town called "Rubbah. And Zughar, the younger daughter, died at 'Ain Zughar, which was in like manner called after her." (Yak., ii. 752; Mar., i. 460.) Among later accounts of Zughar the following note by Dimashki, written about the year 1300, is the only one worth translating: "Zughar lies in the district of As Safiyah in the Ghaur. There grows here a kind of date like those called Al Barani and Al Izad in 'Irak." (Dim, 213.) Besides those already given, the following notes of distances between Zughar and the neighbouring towns are worth inserting, as tending to prove that this city lay at the south end of the Dead Sea: Zughar to Riha (Jericho), two days. (Is., LLL, Id.) To Jabal ash Sharah, one clay. (Is., I.H.) And to the further limit of the same, two days. (Id.) Zughar to Kawus, one march. (Muk.) To Maab, one march. (Muk.) To Wailah, four marches. (Muk.) THE WET J, OF THE LEAF. "Al...