Note 186
The present state of the family of Mahomet
and Ali is most accurately described by Demetrius Cantemir
(Hist. of the Othmae Empire, p. 94) and Niebuhr,
(Description de l'Arabie, p. 9 - 16, 317 &c.) It is much to
be lamented, that the Danish traveller was unable to
purchase the chronicles of Arabia.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 50