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" Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs facing the South, surrounded by stone walls without any aperture, or, as others say, by strong planking. Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain, somewhat like a large four-post... "
The Dublin Review - Page 95
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1857 - 1196 pages
...fifty to fifty-five feet, separated on all sides by a narrow passage from the walls of the mosque. Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs facing the south, surrounded by stone-walls without any aperture, or, as others say, by strong planking. Whatever the material is,...
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The Dublin review, Volume 39

1855 - 554 pages
...and 20 on the eastern. The reason of this isolation has been before explained, and there is a saving of Mohammed's, ' 0 Allah cause not my tomb to become...outside with a curtain, somewhat like a large four-post bud. The outer railing is separated by a dark narrow passage from the inner one, which it surrounds,...
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El-Medinah

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1855 - 456 pages
...Allah's wrath fall heavy upon the people who make the tombs of their prophets places of prayer ! " f Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs facing the south, surrounded by * Burckhardt writes this word Hedjra (which means " flight''). Nor is M. Caussin de Perceval's " El...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 672 pages
...It is surmounted by a green dome, bearing a large gilt crescent springing from a series of globes. Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs...material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain. An outer railing is separated by a dark narrow passage from an inner railing, and this fence forbids...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 684 pages
...It is surmounted by a green dome, bearing a large gilt crescent springing from a series of globes. Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs...walls without any aperture, or, as others say, by strongplanking. Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside witli a curtain. An outer railing...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 39

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 686 pages
...room. It is surmounted by a green dome, bearing a krge gilt crescent springing from a series of globes. Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs...surrounded by stone walls without any aperture, or, аз others say, by strong planking. Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain....
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah, Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 458 pages
...eastern. The reason of this isolation has been before explained, and there is a saying of Mohammed's, " O Allah, cause not my tomb to become an object of idolatrous...any aperture, or, as others say, by strong planking, f Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain, somewhat like a large fourpost...
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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Hakluyt Society - Voyages and travels - 1863 - 488 pages
...mosque by a passage about twenty-six feet broad on the south side, and twenty on the eastern...Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs facing the south, s'urrounded by stone walls, or, as others say, by strong planking. Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain,...
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Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Meccah and Medinah

Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1879 - 576 pages
...walls of the Mosque by a passage about twenty-six feet broad on the south side, and twenty on the east. The reason of this isolation has been before explained,...facing the south, surrounded by stone walls without auy aperture, or, as others say, by strong planking. Whatever this material muy be, it is hung outside...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1893 - 504 pages
...followers to frequent graveyards. "Visit graves; of a verity they shall make you think of futurity!" Inside there are, or are supposed to be, three tombs...without any aperture, or, as others say, by strong planking.1 Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain, somewhat like a large...
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