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A BDALLA Ebn Zobeir, efcapes from 
Yezid, and railes an army, 14; af- 
pires to the khalifat?, 15 ; his impru¬ 
dence, ifi; taken prifoner, and releafed, 
ibid, his heroic death, t8. 
Abdalmalec, khalif of the Modem em¬ 
pire, 16; marches againft Mufab, 17; 
becomes foie mafter of the empire, 18 ; 
_ his death, ibid. 
Abu Beer, elected khalif on the death of 
Mahomet, 7 ; tioublcs attending his ac- 
ceflion, ibid, marches againft the Greek 
emperor, 8 ; • his fuccelles and death, 
ibid. 
Abu Obeidah made chief commander in 
Syria by Omar, 8 ; attacks Aleppo, 9 ; 
inverts the citadel, ibid, takes the place 
at laid by an extraordinary rnancuvre, 
10 ; takes Antioch, ibid, dies of the 
plague, 11. 
Africa Propria taken by the Arabs, 18. 
Aleppo attacked by the Arabs, 9 ; taken 
by ftratageru, 10. 
A 1 Hejaj, a general under the khalif Ab¬ 
dalmalec, 17 ; made governor of Me¬ 
dina, See. 18 ; his death and charac¬ 
ter, 19. 
Ali, fon-in-law to Mahomet, chofen kha¬ 
lif after the death of Otliman, 12 ; 
party formed againft him by Ayelha, 
one of Mahomet’s widows, whom he 
defeats and takes prifoner, 13 ; mar¬ 
ches againft Moawiyah into Syria, ibid, 
depofed by arbitration, ibid, defeats 
the Kharejites, and is himlelf foon af¬ 
ter murdered, 14. 
A 1 Manfur, khalif, removes the feat of 
the Modem empire to Bagdat, 21. 
Arnru Ebn ai As, lent to reduce fome 
places in Paieftine, 10; takes Ciefarea, 
11; undertakes an expedition againft 
Egypt, and reduces Tarma-, Mefr, 
Alexandria, See. ibid, joins in a con¬ 
spiracy againft All, 13. 
Arabia Deferta, boundaries and extent, 1. 
Arabia Felix, boundaries and extent, 1 ; 
uncertain, when ftrft peopled, 2. 
A RBALIST, orcrofs-bow, its inven¬ 
tors uncertain, 53 ; in ufe among 
the ancients, ibid, in England and 
France, ibid, how formed, 53, 54; ca¬ 
pable of being managed with,more dex¬ 
terity than the long-bpw, 54. 
Arrow, formed of reeds, cane, or wood, 
5 1 ; fifteen forts of wood of which ar¬ 
rows were made in England, ibid, ar¬ 
rows fo contrived as to drive out (hot 
and balls, 51, 52 ; poifoned arrows, 
52; fiery arrows, ibid, arrows for con¬ 
veying intelligence, 53; arrows for 
crofs-bows, 54. 
Arrow-heads, originally formed of ftones, 
514. then of the horns of animals, ibid, 
made of brals or copper in the time of 
Homer, ibid, curious cup made of ar¬ 
row-heads, ib.id. modes of pointing ar- 
E R A L IN 
ARABIA. 
Arabia Petraea, ancient boundaries, 1. 
Ayeflia, Mahomet’s,widow; forms a party 
againft Otliman, whom Ihe caufes to 
be murdered, 12; caules more diftur- 
bances on the accefiion of All, ibid, 
takes the field, and reduces Balra, 13 ; 
taken prifoner, ibid, her death, 14. 
Azarakites, a feel of Mahometans, 17. 
Boundaries and extent of Arabia, 1 ; pre- 
fent boundaries, 25. 
Defert of Sinai deferibed, 2;. 
Diviiijn of the Arabs into two claftes, 2. 
Etymology of the word Arabia, t. 
France, incurfions into by the Aiabs, 19. 
GItalian, kingdom 'of, 3. 
Hegira, Mahomet’s flight, the era from 
which the Mahometans compute their 
time, 4, 5. 
Hejaz, kingdom of, 3. 
Hira, kingdom of, its rife and fall, 3, 7. 
Jerufalem taken by the Arabs. 9. 
Judda or Jodda, a place of great trade in 
the Red Sea, 26. 
Kahtan, or joktan, the firft crowned king 
of Y-aman, 2. 
Khaled, made general by Abu Beer, 7; 
puts an end to the kingdom of Hira, 
ibid, difplaced by Omar, and his be¬ 
haviour thereupon, 8 ; preferred by 
Abu Obeidah on his gaining the victo¬ 
ry of Yarinouk, ibid, various other 
fuccefles, 10. 
Mahomet, his birth -and family, 3 ; a- 
vows his defign of introducing a new 
religion, 4; fruitlefs plots to deltroy 
him, 4, 6 ; propagates his faith by the 
fword, 5 ; takes poffefiion of Mecca, 
6 ; his 'death, 7 ; principles of his re¬ 
ligion, 24; his mofque at Mecca, and 
his tomb at Medina, deferibed, 26. 
Martel, Charles, Hops the incurlions of 
tiie Arabs, and drives them out of 
France,' 19. 
Mecca, the capital of Arabia Deferta, ta¬ 
ken by Mahomet, 6 ; defcrip'tion of 
it,.26. 
Medina, city of, a great plague there, 
ARC H E R T, 
rows at prefent, ibid, arrows pointed 
with iron, 34. 
After.and Menelaus, two ikilful archers' 
of antiquity, 54. 
Bow, how fir(t formed, 48 ; of Perlia, 
Tartary, Gtaheite, Lapland, &c- 48 ; 
metallic bows, ibid, modern bows in 
England, ibid. Grecian bow, 49 ; Scy j 
thian bow, ibid, modern Tartar bow, 
ibid. Dacian bows,, ibid. Roman bow, 
Lbid. Amazonian bow, ibid. Carducian 
-and Ethiopian bows, ibid, different 
modes of drawing the bow, 50 ; dex¬ 
terity of the emperors Domitian and 
Commodas in the ufe of the bow, 54; 
bow of Ulyffes, 55 ; ufed in France 
under Charlemagne, 58- 
Bowmen, how placed in a battle, and 
their principal ufes, 58, 
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D E X. 
41 ; taken by ftorm, and pillaged, 51 ; 
defeription of Mahomet’s tomb, 26. 
Merwan Ebn al Hakem, proclaimed kha¬ 
lif at Damafeus, 16 ; iiis death, ibid. 
Merwan Ebn Mahomet, khalf, 19 ; in- 
furredlions againft him quieted, 20 ; 
defeated and killed, ibid. 
Moawiyah, proclaimed khalif in Syria on 
the death of Otliman, 13 ; contrives to 
get Ali depofed, ibid, becomes mafter 
of the Mullein einpireon the murd-er of 
Ali, 14; his death, ibid. 
Mocha, the capital of Arabia Felix, 25. 
Money firft coined in Arabia, and on 
what occafion, 18. 
Old loft Arabians, account of them, 2 ; 
their high antiquity, 24. 
Omar, lucceeds Abu Beer in the khali- 
fate r 8 ; his vilit to jerufalem, 9 ; hfs 
divifion of Syria, and return to Medi¬ 
na, ibid, great fuccefs of his generals in 
various quarters, 9-11 ; his ueatii, it. 
Otiiman, khalif after Omar, 11 ; mur¬ 
dered, 12. 
Prefent Arabians, their rife and progref- 
live lliftory, 2 ; their hiftory under Ma¬ 
homet, 3-7; under Mahomet’s fuccef- 
fors in the khalifate, 7-21 ; remarks on 
their independence, 21 ; retrofpedl of 
their manners, religion, Scc. previous 
to the time of Mahomet, 23 ; the Scrip¬ 
tures fulfilled in their prefent mode of 
living, 25; their government at this 
time, 26. 
Spain, eruption into by the Arabs, 19. 
Suez, the Arfinoe of the ancients, a lliort 
account of it, 26. 
Table of Solomon, 19. 
Yaman, kingdom of, its firft eftablifh- 
ment, 2 ; reduced by the king of Ethi¬ 
opia, 3. . 
Yezid, fuccceds to the khalifate, 144 his 
death,, 15. 
Youkinna, governor of Aleppo, 9 ; his 
cruelty, ibid, turns Mahometan, 10 ; 
gains Antioch for Oniar, ibid, ami- 
Tripoli and Tyre, 1.1. 
Bow-ltrings, originally of leather, 5c 4 
fometimes of the finews of hearts, then 
of cat-gut, and at prefent of hemp, 
ibid, proverb of “Two firings to your 
bow,” 50,-51. 
Butts,'or targets, different kinds of, cj. 
Cretan archers, very famous, 50. 
Englifh archery, eminent formerly above 
all other, 48, 55,56, &c. firft mentioned 
by Speed, 53; crofs-bow-men common 
in the reign of Henry III. ibid, law 
made by Henry VIII. which made the 
crofs-bow decline, ibid. Echard Sup* 
pofes the English unacquainted with 
archery at the conqueft, which how- 
ever.feems very improbable, 56 ; during 
the Saxon heptarchy, ibid, at the battle 
of C redly and Poiiliers, and during the 
time of Edward Ill. 56,57; thcvictoiy 
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