"Now the Scythians say that their nation is the youngest of all nations, and that this came to pass as follows:—The fi…"

"Oh! I could toil for thee o’er burning plains; Could smile at poverty’s disastrous blow; With thee, could wander ’mid…"

"Shafi‘i's treatment of the issue is slightly different. Speaking of grown-up Zoroastrian or polytheist women taken in…"

"We have also seen that according to the prevalent view of the traditionists, a female polytheist must be converted to…"

"The prevalent view of the jurisprudents is that sexual intercourse of any kind is not permissible with Zoroastrian or…"

"If Zoroastrian and idolatrous women are taken prisoner, they are coerced into Islam; if they embrace it, sexual relat…"

"There is nothing wrong in a man having sexual relations with his Zoroastrian slave-girl."

"But the one remarkable achievement was the mixing of races that set the example for the cosmopolitan civilization of …"

"[The milieu of the Persian court was one in which intellectual and artistic intercourse between representatives of th…"

"The town of Zanzibar, a port of call for several steamship lines, was chosen, even in antiquity, notably by Phoenicia…"