[Footnote 101: The most authentic account of these precepts,
pilgrimage, prayer, fasting, alms, and ablutions, is
extracted from the Persian and Arabian theologians by
Maracci, (Prodrom. part iv. p. 9 - 24,) Reland, (in his
excellent treatise de Religione Mohammedica, Utrecht, 1717,
p. 67 - 123,) and Chardin, (Voyages in Perse, tom. iv. p. 47
- 195.) Marace is a partial accuser; but the jeweller,
Chardin, had the eyes of a philosopher; and Reland, a
judicious student, had travelled over the East in his closet
at Utrecht. The xivth letter of Tournefort (Voyage du
Levont, tom. ii. p. 325 - 360, in octavo) describes what he
had seen of the religion of the Turks.]