Note 056
From The Invasion of Syria,part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

These words are a text of the Koran, c. ix. 32, lxi. 8. Like our fanatics of the last century, the Moslems, on every familiar or important occasion, spoke the language of their Scriptures — a style more natural in their mouths than the Hebrew idiom, transplanted into the climate and dialect of Britain.

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