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Sacred Books of the East
The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious texts, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.
All of the books are in the public domain in the United States, and most or all are in the public domain in many other countries. Electronic versions of all fifty volumes are widely
still cited by modern historians.
- Tarik's Address to His Soldiers, 711 CE, from "The Breath of Perfumes". A translation of al-Maqqari's work included in Charles F. Horne, "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East", (New York: Parke, Austin, & Lipscomb, 1917), Vol. VI: Medieval Arabia, pp. 241–242. Horne was the editor, the translator is not identified. NB: the online extract, often cited, does not