. 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: . Ishua (Joshua) and Adam,bishop and pope of Tzinista—China. In the same year (635) that the ANTECEDENTS OF THE TUEKISH NATIONS 269 [635-712 ] Syrian monk received the hospitality of the holy emperor—the fourteenthof the Hejira—the Arabs dispersed the Persian cavalry at Kadeseeyah. Thirtyyears afterwards Persia invoked Allah, and Arabian adventurers crossed theOxus. ARABS IN TURKESTAN AND TIBET The Arab bands organized i
. 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: . Ishua (Joshua) and Adam,bishop and pope of Tzinista—China. In the same year (635) that the ANTECEDENTS OF THE TUEKISH NATIONS 269 [635-712 ] Syrian monk received the hospitality of the holy emperor—the fourteenthof the Hejira—the Arabs dispersed the Persian cavalry at Kadeseeyah. Thirtyyears afterwards Persia invoked Allah, and Arabian adventurers crossed theOxus. ARABS IN TURKESTAN AND TIBET The Arab bands organized in Khorasan to invade the Turkish marches ofSogdiana and Ferghana followed the old military route south of the Oxus viaMerv and Balkh. On the other side of the Oxus the resistance was morevigorous than has been supposed. But religion had little to do with it. Theextraordinary disorganisation of the country was the principal cause whichfacilitated the victory of Islam. Not till the year 94 of the Hejira (712) couldthe Arabs build their first mosque in Bokhara, and then they had to make theconcession—unprecedented in Moslem experience—of performing the service. -^; Turkish Farmhouse in Persian. For a long time afterwards, in this country conquered by Islam,the faithful went to the mosque only in groups and armed. For the Christianised inhabitants of Sogdiana the Arabic invasion was nota surprise, as it was for the Turks. Indeed, the sectarian Zoroastrians saw inthe doctrine of Islam deliverance from an odious state religion. Furthermore,the dignitaries of the Nestorian church were all of them Arabian Syrians, andtherefore compatriots of the Arabs, whose faces, customs, language, costume,and way of thinking were familiar to them. Even the new religion seemed inmany of its features familiar. Without ceding any of their Nestorian dogma,these Christians chose unhesitatingly Islamic enthusiasm in place of the officialfanaticism of the magi. Heretics themselves, they preferred
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