Mahomedans

The Unionist 1833-09-05

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Mahomedans. —A traveller [sic] says, that during his long residence at Malta, and constant course of commercial transactions with the professors of the Mahomedan creed, he never heard of an unpaid debt, or a violated obligation: and that it is a usual mode of traffic in the market towns, throughout Turkey, for the farmers and hucksters to leave their fowls, eggs, butter, &c. in baskets with the prices fixed, and to return in the evening in perfect security of finding the article as they left it or the exact price deposited in the place of just so much as had found a purchaser.

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Many of the radical abolitionists were among those also arguing for religious tolerance. This article, in its candid assessment of Islam, and therefore its sideways critique of Christianity, is a sign of this gradual change underway (and this, despite the cringe-worthy "Mahomedan" moniker)

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Title: Mahomedans
Description: Assessment of the high degree of honesty among Muslims
Bibliographic Citation: The Unionist 1833-09-05
Full Issue Sequence Number: 1833-09-05 p.04.58
Type: Text
Language: English
Publisher: The Unionist
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Subject: Religion
Source: The Unionist
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--text-0132
Category: Unionist content
Issue: 6
Related image: unionist--image-0194