The Philosophy of History in a Course of Lectures Delivered At Vienna
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But a term was at last put to the progress of their arms, by the mighty victory which the Frank hero, Charles Martel, gained between Tours and Poitiers, over their general, Abderame, who fell on the field with the flower of his troops, in the twentieth year after the conquest of Spain, and in the hundred and tenth year of the Hegira. Thus did the arm of Charles Martel save and deliver the Cliristian nations of the West, from the deadly grasp of all-destroying Islam. In Asia the universal domini...on of the Arabs was more and more firmly consolidated, and the second of the Abbassides, Almansor, erected the city of Bagdad, or the new Babylon, not far from the country where the old was situated, and which was thenceforth the vast metropolis of an immense empire. * * It may not perhaps be uninteresting to the reader to compare with Schlegel's account of Mohammedanism, an admirable thougli briefer sketch of the same religion by the hand of another great master — the illustrious Goerres. In the Synopsis which he has pubhshed of the Lectures on Universal History, that he has been for several years delivering at Munich, we find the following remarkable passage on the Mohammedan religion.
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