[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants
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* Note: Dr.Clarke, (Travels, vol.ii.
p.
491,) after expressing contemptuous pity for Gibbon's ignorance, derives the word from Zara, Zaara, Sara, the Desert, whence Saraceni, the children of the Desert.
De Marles adopts the derivation from Sarrik, a robber, (Hist.
des Arabes, vol.i.p.
36, S.L.Martin from Scharkioun, or Sharkun, Eastern, vol.xi.p.
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