the sonna or oral law was fixed and consecrated by the labours of Al-Bochari[1]. But further, our acknowledgments are due to Prideaux, White's Bampton Lectures, Jones' New and full Method of Settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament, Mills' History of Mohammedanism, Maltby's Illustrations, Collyer's Lectures on Scripture Comparison, and the Persian Controversies translated by Professor Lee; an invaluable acquisition, containing controversial tracts on Christianity and Mohammedanism, by the late Rev. Henry Martyn, and some of the most eminent writers in Persia, together with an original tract, and an extended account of a former controversy on the same subject. From these and other sources, assistance has been derived, but no facts are advanced which may not be confirmed by the autho-
- ↑ See Gibbon.
