Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford… — Edward Gibbon
Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1789
★ 5.3On the counterfactual possibility of an Arab victory against the French army at Poitiers in 732 AD.
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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 52.
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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 52.
