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The Nonconformist. No. XVIIL ' . .. . " Observations on Mahometanisrn, its Church Establishment and Treatnieni of Nonconformists, particularly the 0?akhabites.
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THE recent fate of the leaders of a sect , which arose SWthin the last century , to impugn the rale of faith maintained as' orthodox by the Established Mahometan Church , and
to shake the power of the state with which that Church is identified , attracted th £ attention , perhaps , of many of us , and has induced me to think that we might usefully devote a little attention to the affairs even of parties so widely removed from the sphere of our relations , if it were only from a
feeling of commiseration with resistance in any shape to the combined horrors of political and spiritual despotism , and a desire to trace ; , however faintly , the too apparent effects on the destinies of mankind , which arise from the union of Church and State , whatever be the intrinsic merits of the
system which the coalition is meant to support . The consideration of the subject suggested rather a wide field of inquiry into the nature and details of the Moslem Establishment , its conduct towards Nonconformists , and the principles by which that conduct seems to have been
governed ; but towards satisfying our curiosity on these points there is iuot much accurate information ; and in general under a despotic form of government , apostacy from its faith is so necessarily „ and intimately connected with a rebellion against its civil ' policy , that it is difficult to discover the real
motives of either party , wider the veil which the conqueror , at finy rate , thinks proper to throw over them . . The whole ' system of Mahometans—whether We consider tjie e ^ tnu
ordinary cKaractier arid History of its founder , its rapid prdgrfek , or Us innuence for so manyagM'btt thfe habits , [ engious , political and mo ^ al , of so lar a Portion of tlio ^ UnUwf ] < r 1 nho ^ ge a , portion ofthe civilizedlobe
, g , Uo tejge , indeed ; as to startle a mind ^ gardmg the < comparative , influences ot istemism atidGhri&tiartity , ) r ^ has always seeiapd : td ihfi ^ afsufejaet of great wh
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interest , and open to much speculation and inquiry , the materials for which are proportion&bly scanty . What is there ' m * history ( if any thing like history pf the early or indeed any portion of the life of Mahomet can be said to exist *) that forbids us ,
or rather what is there that does not induce us to believe that , at least in the first conception of the bold project of reclaiming his country to a purer systena of theology , and restoring the faith taught , as he conceived , by the divine missions of the Hebrew pr < £ -
phets and Jesus Christ , to its primitive simplicity , tHe man who afterwards stooped to base imposture , was actuated by a generous feeling of abhorrence of the degeneracy and superstition of the Jew and the Christian , and
the degrading idolatry of the Heathen by whom he was surrounded ? It will not be in my power here to enter into any particular detail of the history and doctrine of Mahomet ,
nor is it my purpose to palliate the arts of imposture and . tyranny by which ( as far as our accounts can be depended upon ) ii certainly appears that his plans were eyentually carried into effect ; but I cannot help observing , that the nobleness of his birth , his
unquestioned descent from princes who had long ruled their country by the sole title of approved wisdom and integrity , the unvarying testimony to his talents and possession of the kind and generous affections of the heart ,
his situation , by common consent , ad the chosen guardian of the existing Religion of the country , raise a strdtfg presumjption that the project whi ^ h first presented itself to his mind was that of earning to hhnsejf an fyonour $ ) le hawie , and deserving well of
* .- "' Gibbon has hardly apprized the reader sufficiently of the crumbling foundation upon : which' his narrative of l ^ tial hornet's life and actions depends' /*^ Hallam's Middle * Agfes ^ lK 163 , 8 * o ^ r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/1/
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