Note 341 — Chapter XXI · RISING IN NORTHERN SYRIA. A.H. XVII. A.D. 638.

That is, their tax was called úshr (‘tenth’), the tithe paid by the believer, instead of jazia. It may be doubted whether the intolerant condition, forbidding the education of the children in Christian doctrine, was meant otherwise than as a nominal indication of the supremacy of Islam. It certainly was not enforced (if at all) with any rigour, for we read of this great tribe continuing in the profession of Christianity under the Omeyyad, and even under the Abbasside, dynasties. And in still later times they had their bishops at Ana, on the Euphrates. (See Caussin de Perceval, v. iii. p. 324.)

We now part with that invaluable author, whose history closes with this narrative.