Excerpt from The Saracens, From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Bagdad After this name had been used in an indefinite manner for all the unknown tribes of the desert, it was given to the followers of Mohammed; and it is used in that sense in the following pages, thus com prising many different nations, scattered at times from the Atlantic to the Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.