Arabia: The Cradle of Islam : : Studies in the Geography, People, and Politics of the Peninsula with an account of Islam and Mission-work /

Arabia: The Cradle of Islam : : Studies in the Geography, People, and Politics of the Peninsula with an account of Islam and Mission-work / / Samuel M. Zwemer.

This book describes the Arabian peninsula on the eve of the First World War.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
VerfasserIn:
Zwemer, Samuel M.,
MitwirkendeR:
Dennis, James S.,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (490 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Introductory Note
  • Note to the Fourth Edition
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • MAPS AND DIAGRAMS
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • XXXV. PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN FIELD
  • XXXVI. THE OUTLOOK FOR MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS IN ARABIA
  • Appendix I. A CHRONOLOGIGAL TABLE
  • Appendix II. TABLE OF THE ARAB TRIBES OF NORTHERN ARABIA
  • Appendix III. KAAT AND COFFEE CULTURE IN ARABIA
  • Appendix IV. AN ARABIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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