. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . CHAPTER IVREVIVAL FOLLOWED BY RAPID DECLINE [1656-1807 ] MTJHAMMED KOPRILI The court astronomer at Constantinople, on September 15th, 1656, deter-mined that the most favourable time for the investiture of Muhammed Kopriliwith the grand vizirate was the hour of the midday prayer, at the instantwhen the cry of God is great resounds from the heights of the minarets. According to a prescribed rule of Islam, the noontide pr
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . CHAPTER IVREVIVAL FOLLOWED BY RAPID DECLINE [1656-1807 ] MTJHAMMED KOPRILI The court astronomer at Constantinople, on September 15th, 1656, deter-mined that the most favourable time for the investiture of Muhammed Kopriliwith the grand vizirate was the hour of the midday prayer, at the instantwhen the cry of God is great resounds from the heights of the minarets. According to a prescribed rule of Islam, the noontide prayer is repeatednot at the exact moment when the sun is on the meridian, but a few secondsafterwards; because the tradition of the prophets teaches that, at the astro-nomical noon, the devil is wont to take the sun between his two horns, so thathe may wear it as the crown of the worlds dominion; and the fiend thenrears himself as lord of the earth, but he lets the sun go directly he hears thewords God Ls great repeated on high in the summons of the true believersto prayer. Thus, says the Turkish historian, the demons of cruelty,debauchery, and sedition, who had reach
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