Semitic peoples
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the Semites · the Semitic peoples · الشعوب السامية · الساميين · the Semitic stocks · الامم السامية · الساميون
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
It is well known that the Arabs and the rest of the Semitic nations are, by their very nature, people of the divine unity, and that if they worshipped an idol it is most likely that that idol was an importation among them.
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Semitic nations, whose languages, literatures and religions form the comparative field of Robertson Smith's scholarship as the author describes it.
From our reading of the book we ascertained the man's learning and merit, and the breadth of his acquaintance with the letters, the languages and the religions of the Semitic peoples, and we discerned, through his proofs and the casting of his phrase, an argumentative force and a power of persuasion the like of which is rare among the masters of
The truth is that descent is ancient among the Arabs, as ancient as it is among the rest of the Semitic nations, and the Arabs hold to it the more firmly by reason of their bedouin life and their moving from place to place, their hands being empty of any other bond to refer to.
Yet had he left aside assumption and supposition and looked at the matter in its plainness, he would have seen these Semitic nations resembling one another in a real and evident matter in which there is no confusion — namely, the tracing of descent to the fathers of the Torah.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Peoples speaking Semitic languages, mentioned as a possible case of sex-disproportion.
If however it be impossible to say what portion of the human race has suffered from this disproportion between the sexes—if we are unable to deny that some fragments of the vast aggregates of men speaking languages of the Aryan and Semitic stocks may conceivably at some time or other have had this experience—what use, it may be asked, is there in insisting on the Patriarchal theory as expressing t …