They have, however, never been able to bring themselves to print books and set up public clocks. They hold that their scriptures, that is, their sacred books, would no longer be scriptures if they were printed ; and if they established public clocks,... The Theft of History - Page 18de Jack Goody - 2007Aperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
| Bernard Lewis - 2002 - 192 pages
...their own use large and small cannons and many other of our discoveries. They have, however, never been able to bring themselves to print books and set...and if they established public clocks, they think that the authority of their muezzins and their ancient rites would suffer diminution."2 Another European... | |
| William Irwin Thompson - 2004 - 110 pages
...Alexander Stille's comments on the scholarship of Christoph Luxenberg in Germany in Stille (2002). [3] 'They hold that their scriptures, that is, their sacred books, would no longer be culation shifts the emphasis for modern medicine from the humours of the liver and spleen to the pulse... | |
| Edward Seymour Forster - 2005 - 302 pages
...their own use large and small cannons and many other of our discoveries. They have, however, never been able to bring themselves to print books and set...and if they established public clocks, they think that the authority of their muezzins and their ancient rites would suffer diminution. In other matters... | |
| Robert Spencer - 2007 - 264 pages
...Ghiselin de Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, wrote that his hosts had "never been able to bring themselves to print books and set...and if they established public clocks, they think that the authority of their muezzins and their ancient rites would suffer diminution."26 It was not... | |
| Anthony Pagden - 2008 - 576 pages
...Ottomans, 'be induced as yet to use printing, or to establish public clocks, because they think that the Scriptures, that is their sacred books — would no longer be scriptures if they were printed, and that if public clocks were introduced, the authority of their muezzins and their ancient rites would... | |
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