Moulavi Gerágh Ali

“ Even if it be admitted that Maria the Coptic was a slave-girl, there is no proof that she was a concubine-slave. It is a stereotyped fabrication of traditionists, and the unpardonable blunder on the part of European writers, that they almost always confound female-slaves, and even sometimes captives, with concubine-slaves. ”

“ Yakoob bin Mohammad has been impeached by Abu Zaraá, a critic in the Science of Traditions. [1] Jáfar and Abdullah both flourished after the first century. Their evidence to the supposed fact about a century ago is inadmissible. ”