Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... WAHABEES , WAHABITES , or WECHA- BITES , is the name of several Arab tribes , who profess the religious faith which Sheik Mohammed , son of Abdel Wahab , taught in the middle of the eighteenth century , and , like the founder of the ...
... WAHABEES , WAHABITES , or WECHA- BITES , is the name of several Arab tribes , who profess the religious faith which Sheik Mohammed , son of Abdel Wahab , taught in the middle of the eighteenth century , and , like the founder of the ...
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... Wahabees , filled with hatred of Mohammedanism , and taught to de- light in plundering the treasures of the mosques . Sehud's son and successor , Abd - Elaziz , could bring into the field 120,000 cavalry . Well provided with camels and ...
... Wahabees , filled with hatred of Mohammedanism , and taught to de- light in plundering the treasures of the mosques . Sehud's son and successor , Abd - Elaziz , could bring into the field 120,000 cavalry . Well provided with camels and ...
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... Wahabees . Soon after the massacre , perpetrated , by Mohamined Ali , among the beys and mamelukes at Cairo , the Wahabees formed a junction with the relics of them who had fled to Upper Egypt . Mohammed Ali now pros- ecuted , with ...
... Wahabees . Soon after the massacre , perpetrated , by Mohamined Ali , among the beys and mamelukes at Cairo , the Wahabees formed a junction with the relics of them who had fled to Upper Egypt . Mohammed Ali now pros- ecuted , with ...
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... Wahabees . WAHLENBERG , George , lecturer on bot- any in the university of Upsal , and super- intendent of the museum of the society of science in that place , was born in the province of Warmeland , in 1784. While a student at the ...
... Wahabees . WAHLENBERG , George , lecturer on bot- any in the university of Upsal , and super- intendent of the museum of the society of science in that place , was born in the province of Warmeland , in 1784. While a student at the ...
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... Wahabees . ) WEDDERBURN , Alexander , earl of Ross- lyn , a distinguished English lawyer , eld- est son of Peter Wedderburn , one of the senators of the college of justice in Scot- land , was born in 1733 , and bred to the law in his ...
... Wahabees . ) WEDDERBURN , Alexander , earl of Ross- lyn , a distinguished English lawyer , eld- est son of Peter Wedderburn , one of the senators of the college of justice in Scot- land , was born in 1733 , and bred to the law in his ...
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