fate-doctrine

Updated: May 23, 2025

And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, and desolate, and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited." A series of disastrous revolutions has successively reduced this once so fair and fertile region, to waste, barrenness, and barbarism; the Mahometan fate-doctrine meanwhile hugging and conserving its ruins and dilapidations.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846