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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: | 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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