Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid painting

Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid paintingUnknown Artist Vanitas Still Life paintingJohn William Waterhouse The Magic Circle painting
without any trace of hesitation or doubt, he recites two further verses.
"Have you thought upon Lat and Uzza, and Manat, the third, the other?" -- After the first verse, Hind gets to her feet; the Grandee of Jahilia is already standing very straight. And Mahound, with silenced eyes, recites: "They are the exalted birds, and their intercession is desired indeed."
As the noise -- shoutsagain. "If your God has really spoken to you," he says, "then all the world must hear it." And in an instant the silence in the great tent is complete.
"_The Star_," Mahound cries out, and the scribes begin to write.
"In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful!
"By the Pleiades when they Simbel rises and calls to Mahound, "Welcome." He is all urbanity. "Welcome, Mahound, the seer, the kahin." It's a public declaration of respect, and