Problem: Using the quote below explain Edward Gibbon's view on how Europeans and Arabs were different and why?
"The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy; and the poverty of the[Arabian] land has introduced a maxim of jurisprudence which they believe and practice to the present hour. They pretend that, in the division of the earth, the rich and fertile climates were assigned to the other branches of the human family: and that the posterity of the outlaw Ismael might recover, by fraud or force, the portion of inheritance of which they had been unjustly deprived."