When mohammed appeared it seemed that poetry would die out, but it flourished more than ever.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
He was of the tribe of Koraish, the same tribe to which mohammed himself belonged.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
We remember that for hundreds of years they fought incessantly against the active power of the Porte, and, almost single-handed, kept the Ottomans and the piratical Algerines at bay, an enemy who, uniting, strove to extend the creed of mohammed westward by power of the sword, and to banish Christianity from the face of the earth; how, successively driven from Jerusalem, Cyprus, Acre, and Rhodes, they finally established a home for the order in this Maltese group, in defense of which they fought heroically, spilling their blood like water upon the ramparts of St. Elmo, and finally erecting this noble city, where they have left such lasting monuments of their bravery, enterprise, success, and decline.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou