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Indeed, as Ammianus Marcellinus, referring to the Arabs, says: "Incredible est quo ardore apud eos in venerem uterque solvitur sexus." Contents of The Scented Garden. Among the longer tales are those of Moseilma, "Bahloul and Hamdonna," and "The Negro Al Dhurgham" all furiously Fescinnine. The story of Moseilema, Lord of Yamama, is familiar in one form or another to most students of Arab History.
Moseilema, who outlived Mohammed about a year, was defeated and slain near his capital Yamama, by the Mohammedan hero Khalid, and Sedjah subsequently embraced Islamism. In the tale entitled "Djoaidi and Fadehat el Djemal" appears that hoary poet, philosopher and reprobate, Abu Nowas of The Arabian Nights.
He charges Moseilema with having perverted sundry chapters in the Koran by his lies and impostures, and declares that he did worse than fail when he attempted to imitate Mohammed's miracles. As a matter of fact, however, Moseilema was one of the most romantic figures in Arabic history. Sedja, Queen and Prophetess, went to see him in much the same spirit that the Queen of Sheba visited Solomon.
Washington Irving epitomises it in his inexpressibly beautiful "Successors" of Mahomet and Gibbon tells it more fully, partly in his text and partly in his Latin footnotes. Moseilema was, no doubt, for some years quite as influential a prophet as his rival Mohammed. He may even have been as good a man, but Nafzawi staunch Mohammedan will not let "the Whig dogs have the best of the argument."
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