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THE CONTRACT OF ʿOMAR
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of the night-journey of the Prophet of Arabia. It should be added that Sir William Muir rejects the Contract of ʿOmar as unworthy of him; and the six "desirable" conditions enumerated above certainly seem to belong to a later generation. Perhaps there is a confusion between ʿOmar I. and ʿOmar II.