Turbans as Crowns (Sale, The Koran, 1734)
Text: "And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men." Revelation 9:7 Quote: [...] it being an usual saying among them, that God had bestowed four peculiar things on the Arabs , that their turbands should be to them instead of diadems, their tents instead of walls and houses, their swords instead of intrenchments, and their poems instead of written laws. Sale, George, tr., The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with explanatory notes, taken from the most approved commentators, to which is prefixed a preliminary discourse , London: Printed by C. Ackers, for J. Wilcox, 1734, p. 29 . Online Source: archive.org/details/Sale1734Koran Book Images: