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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1867-1952. Arabia: the cradle of Islam. Edinburgh and London : Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, [1900] (OCoLC)654655278 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Marinus Zwemer |
| OCLC Number: | 8337367 |
| Description: | 3 p. leaves, 434 p. : front., ill. (incl. facsims.) plates, ports., maps (some folded) plan ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Neglected peninsula -- Geographical divisions -- Holy land: Mecca -- Medina -- Aden & inland -- Yemen -- Unexplored Hadramaut -- Muscat, Oman -- Land of camel -- Pearl islands of Gulf -- Eastern threshold -- River-country & date-palm -- Turkish Arabia -- Down Euphrates -- Interior known & unknown -- Time of ignorance -- Islam in its cradle -- The Prophet & his book -- Wahabi rulers & reformers -- Rulers of Oman -- Turks in Arabia -- British influence -- Present politics -- Arabic language -- Literature -- The Arab -- Arts & sciences -- Star-worshippers of Mesopotamia -- Early Christianity in Arabia -- Modern Arabian missions -- Ion Keith-Falconer & Aden -- Bp French, Muscat -- American Arabian mission -- In memoriam P.J. Zwemer, G.E. Stone -- Problems of Arabian field -- Outlook for missions to Moslems -- Appendix: chronological; tribes; bibliog. |
| Responsibility: | by Rev. S.M. Zwemer ... introduction by Rev. James S. Dennis, D.D. |
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