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8. George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun An. Dom. 1610, 2nd ed. (London, 1621), p. 57. 9. Joseph White, Sermons Preached before the University of Oxford in 1784 (Oxford, 1784), p. 171. For more on Islam in the literature of the West, consult Samuel C. Chew’s The Crescent and the Rose (New York, 1937); Norman Daniel Islam and the West (Edinburgh, 1960); Byron P. Smith, Islam in English Literature (Beirut, 1939). 10. In Recherches de science religieuse, Vol. II (Paris, 1911), pp. 25-53, 140-166. 11. Simon Ockley, The History of the Saracens, 5th ed. (London, 1848), pp. 94 seq. Ralph Waldo Emerson commented on Ockley’s account of prodigies of individual valour in his “Heroism,” Essays, first series (Boston, 1861), p. 226. 12. Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Vol. XXIV (Paris, 1828), p. 325. 13. Oeuvres, Vol. XIX (Paris, 1827), p. 443. 14. (Stuttgart, 1819), pp. 253 seq. 15. Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (London, 1897), p. 43. For more information on Islam in the Western literature, refer to Islam and the West, Islam in the Western Literature, pp 48-63. Note: In the book, the author P. K. Hitti uses the spelling ‘Koran’ for the Quran.