Note 066
From The Invasion of Syria,part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

We hear the tecbir; so the Arabs call

Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal
They challenge heaven, as if demanding conquest.

This word, so formidable in their holy wars, is a verb active (says Ockley in his index) of the second conjugation, from Kabbara, which signifies saying Alla Acbar, God is most mighty!

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