...Caliphs proceeded with rapidity almost incredible. " In the ten years of the administration of Omar, the Saracens reduced to his obedience thirty-six thousand...churches or temples of the unbelievers, and edified (built) fourteenhundred mosques for the exercise of the religion of Mohammed. One hundred years after...

...from Mecca to Medina, which was in 622, and is the first year of the Hegira, the arms and dominions of his successors extended from India to the Atlantic...over the various and distant 'provinces, which may be comprised under the general names of Persia, Syria, Egypt, Africa, and Spain. " In the earliest...

...to his obedience 36,OOO cities or castles; destroyed 40OO Christian churches; and built 140O mosques for the exercise of the religion of Mahomet. One hundred...successors, extended from India to the Atlantic Ocean. The conquest of Egypt was effected by Amrou, one of the first of his nation, in an age, when the meanest...

...cities or castles, destroyed 4,000 churches or temples of the unbelievers, and built 1,400 mosques for the exercise of the religion of Mahomet. One hundred years after the flight from Mecca, the arms and the reign of his successors extended from India to the Atlantic...

...History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."* " In the ten years of the administration of Omar, the Saracens reduced to his obedience thirty-six thousand...cities or castles, destroyed four thousand churches and edified fourteen hundred mosques for the exercise of the religion of Mahomet." How justly, then,...

...truth of this prophecy, when he tells us, that " In the ten years of the administration of Omar, " the Saracens reduced to his obedience thirty-six " thousand cities or castles, destroyed four thou" sand churches or temples of the Unbelievers, •" and edified fourteen hundred moschs for the...

...caliphs, over Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Egypt. " In the ten years of the administration of Omar,* the Saracens reduced to his obedience thirty-six thousand...moschs for the exercise of the religion of Mahomet." (Gibbon, ch. 51.) Of those vast conquests, together with immense subsequent acquisitions, the creed...

...enemy whom they had been so long accustomed to despise. In the ten years of the administration of Omar, the Saracens reduced to his obedience thirty-six thousand...successors extended from India to the Atlantic Ocean."" "At the end of the first century of the Hegira, the caliphs were the most potent and absolute monarchs...

...the idea, that, " in the ten years of the administration of Omar," which commenced in the year 634, " the Saracens reduced " to his obedience thirty-six...moschs for the exercise of the religion " of Mahomet." Decline and Fall, Vol. IX. chap. li. p. 361. 23 " into the world ;" and setting up a scheme of Religion...

...and violence by motives of interest and religion. " ' In the ten years of the administration of Omar, the Saracens reduced to his obedience thirty-six thousand...thousand churches or temples of the unbelievers, and erected fourteen hundred mosques, for the exercise of the religion of Mahomet. One hundred years after...