The Turks
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the Turk · the Turks · a Turk · al-Atrāk
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2 expressionsTurks2 mentions
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (English) · Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic)
Let the Quaker and the Turk find their advantage in living under your laws.
The Turk“hypothetical slaveholder”1 mention
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (English)
Were it not so, the Turk might import a harem of Georgian slaves, and, at his option, either hold them as his own property, or sell them as slaves to our own people, in defiance of any principles of freedom that should prevail amongst us.
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
A people invoked as having been mocked by contemporaries for lacking witches and demoniacs, taken paradoxically as evidence against their religion.
The Turks were reproached with having amongst them neither sorcerers, witches, nor demoniacs;
Let the Quaker and the Turk find their advantage in living under your laws.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Turks named in a modern verse quoted in the apparatus as angels and ʻifrīts.
[8] (10) this is like the saying of another, of the moderns, about the Turks:
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
A hypothetical foreign slaveholder used to illustrate the absurdity of allowing foreign slave customs to govern imported persons.
Were it not so, the Turk might import a harem of Georgian slaves, and, at his option, either hold them as his own property, or sell them as slaves to our own people, in defiance of any principles of freedom that should prevail amongst us.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The Turkish people, named as a population about whom a universal judgment cannot be drawn from one liar.
or a Turk lie, then do not judge that the Turks are liars.