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Samuel Marinus Zwemer. Arabia: The Cradle of Islam
Arabia: The Cradle of Islam
Table of Contents
Preface
I. THE NEGLECTED PENINSULA
II. THE GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS OF ARABIA
III. THE HOLY LAND OF ARABIA—MECCA
IV. THE HOLY LAND OF ARABIA—MEDINA
V. ADEN AND AN INLAND JOURNEY
VI. YEMEN: THE SWITZERLAND OF ARABIA
VII. THE UNEXPLORED REGIONS OF HADRAMAUT
VIII. MUSCAT AND THE COASTLANDS OF OMAN
IX. THE LAND OF THE CAMEL
X. THE PEARL ISLANDS OF THE GULF
XI. THE EASTERN THRESHOLD OF ARABIA
XII. THE RIVER-COUNTRY AND THE DATE-PALM
XIII. THE CITIES AND VILLAGES OF TURKISH-ARABIA
XIV. A JOURNEY DOWN THE EUPHRATES
XV. THE INTERIOR—KNOWN AND UNKNOWN
XVI “THE TIME OF IGNORANCE”
XVII. ISLAM IN ITS CRADLE—THE MOSLEM’S GOD[55]
ANALYSIS OF ISLAM AS A SYSTEM, DEVELOPED FROM ITS CREED “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his apostle.”
ANALYSIS OF THE BORROWED ELEMENTS OF ISLAM
XVIII. THE PROPHET AND HIS BOOK
XIX. THE WAHABI RULERS AND REFORMERS
XX. THE RULERS OF OMAN
XXI. THE STORY OF THE TURKS IN ARABIA
XXII. BRITISH INFLUENCE IN ARABIA
XXIII. PRESENT POLITICS IN ARABIA
XXIV. THE ARABIC LANGUAGE
XXV. THE LITERATURE OF THE ARABS
XXVI. THE ARAB
XXVII. ARABIAN ARTS AND SCIENCES
XXVIII. THE STAR-WORSHIPPERS OF MESOPOTAMIA [103]
XXIX. EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN ARABIA
XXX. THE DAWN OF MODERN ARABIAN MISSIONS
XXXI. ION KEITH FALCONER AND THE ADEN MISSION
XXXII. BISHOP FRENCH THE VETERAN MISSIONARY TO MUSCAT
XXXIII. THE AMERICAN ARABIAN MISSION
XXXIV. IN MEMORIAM—PETER J. ZWEMER AND GEO. E. STONE
XXXV. PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN FIELD
XXXVI. OUTLOOK FOR MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS IN ARABIA
Appendix I. A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
Appendix II. TABLE OF THE ARAB TRIBES OF NORTHERN ARABIA
Appendix III. KAAT AND COFFEE CULTURE IN ARABIA
Appendix IV. AN ARABIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
B. Manners and Customs[169]
D. Islam
Index
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