Arabia

Excerpt from the book: The fixed usage of centuries compels us thus to translate the title he claimed; but it were better rendered 'Apostle', so that foreknowledge and foretelling which, in our common parlance, attach to prophecy might be relegated to a secondary place.At the same time, the physical conditions have imposed, with equal dominance, political disunion.Large areas remain veiled during long periods, while small areas are revealed for short periods by deceptive lights.A few Meccan Muslimin went with him.Their community has resulted, in the main, from a simple uniformity of physical conditions.The historian, however, finds this compensation: Arab society has changed so little within the known period that he may venture to infer its prehistoric from its historic condition with better assurance than elsewhere.
About the Author
David George Hogarth was a British archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence and Arthur Evans. He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 1909 to 1927.
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