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  • War with the Jews; of whom the Mohammedans are to make a religious slaughter, the very trees and stones discovering such of them as hide themselves, except only the tree called Gharkad, which is the tree of the

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

  • Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews. (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

    Matthew Yglesias » Why They Fight 2009

  • Gharkad is translated in different ways: some term it the lote, others the tree of the Jews

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Towards the mountain is a tract of low grounds several miles in breadth, in which the shrubs Gharkad and Aszef were growing in great plenty.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • I do not remember, to have seen any Gharkad in the neighbourhood of Howara, but Wady Gharendel is full of this shrub.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • Towards the mountain is a tract of low grounds several miles in breadth, in which the shrubs Gharkad and Aszef were growing in great plenty.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • Noweyba we doubled the point, and rested for the night in a valley just behind it, called Wady Djereimele (ﻪﻟﻤﻴﺮﺟ), thickly overgrown with the shrub Gharkad, the berries of which are ga­thered in great abundance.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • Noweyba we doubled the point, and rested for the night in a valley just behind it, called Wady Djereimele (ﻪﻟﻤﻴﺮﺟ), thickly overgrown with the shrub Gharkad, the berries of which are ga­thered in great abundance.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • The Wady Gharendel contains date trees, tamarisks, acacias of different species, and the thorny shrub Gharkad (ﺪﻗﺮﻏ), the Peganum retusum of Forskal, which is extremely common in this peninsula, and is also met with in the sands of the Delta on the coast of the Mediterranean.

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

  • Gharkad, which from the colour of its fruit is also called by the

    Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

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