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id: 15658
title: Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children
author: Zwemer, Amy E.
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  This is a book of pictures and stories for big children and small grown-up travel strange in Topsy-turvy Land, even the time of the day is all upside higher place and a better lot than the poor girls and women of Arabia! right across Arabia, and they kept it a long time until the people of produces the finest coffee in the world, but I think the Arabs know how When the hours of prayer come around (the Moslems you know pray five times men who go about in the coffee shops of Arabia to tell stories, just as Will you not pray for western Arabia, and also for the Arab Some little missionaries came to Arabia a few years before any of the coasts of Arabia and the ignorant Arabs learn of other lands and peoples The story of mission work in Arabia is not very long, but it is full of


id: 19914
title: Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature
author: Arbuthnot, F. F.
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  Spanish Arab Khalifs; description of Baghdad; reign of to it, long before Muhammad''s time, the Arabs had brought yearly Arabian history, beginning from the time of Muhammad, as his Koran was many Arabic works were translated into Latin, which thus facilitated in the words of Makkari, the original Arab author of that work, and in history, but also the literature of the Arabs begins with Muhammad. translating the works of the Arab chroniclers Abul-Faraj, Al-Makin, places, reproduce old Arabic works of value, but more translations (translated from Persian into Arabic by Ibn Al-Mukaffa about A.D. 750), and another Persian work, not now extant, but known as the stories in Arabic literature, and called ''The Thousand and One The work of the translation of Arabic and Persian stories was details of the life of the Arabs before Muhammad''s time, and even Two stories have been selected from the celebrated Arabic work


id: 21569
title: Southern Arabia
author: Bent, Theodore, Mrs.
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  Our road led us on through miles of palm-groves, watered by their little by land, goes a long way inland, and would take the medical man all day saying the sultan said he must have half a rupee a day for my horse, Our start took a very long time, for the sultan, attended by many people, The sultan went away to Shibahm the next day, and, as usual, the women to sit down and the camel-men said we must stay there the night, as there water is brackish, and he wanted us to go on before the camel-men came Then Ali, the chief of the camel-men, came and said he would not go We had great difficulty in getting the camels to face the water and carry That day, Sheikh Mohamed Ali Hamed, who was riding a loaded camel, came No sultan came, but next day a very affectionate letter from him said he


id: 4658
title: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2
author: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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  Badawi appearance, and they dress in the old Arab style still affected Benu Ali are Badawin settled at the Awali, near the Kuba Mosque: they Meccah and Al-Madinah, a man will lose a she-camel and know her ceremony called Al-Sai, or the running seven times between Mounts Safa whitewashed walls, surrounding places of prayer, and a number of stone Arafat, anciently called Jabal Ilal ([Arabic]), �the Mount [FN#7] Al-Idrisi places Meccah forty (Arab) miles from Jeddah. ([Arabic]); hence the first day of pilgrimage is called Yaum Bekkah, or place of crowding, Meccah so called, ii. the Prophet to Al-Madinah, 354 Mosque of, 426 The place where he was Multazem, Al-, the place of prayer in the Ka�abah so called, ii. Musalla al-Nabi (Prophet�s place of prayer), in the Mosque of Al-Madinah, Al-Madinah, 259 The prayer at the Prophet�s Mosque, 309 The places of Al-Madinah to Meccah so called, ii.


id: 9457
author: Burckhardt, John Lewis
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  since the positions of Djidda, Mekka, Medina, Tayf, and Yembo, the chief country between Tayf, Mekka, Medina, Yembo, and Djidda. town, called Bab Mekka and Bab el Medina, upon all provisions coming Mohammed Ali remained at Mekka and at Djidda, he received a regular present, assembled, on their return to Mekka, at the holy place called heard during prayers in the great mosque at Mekka, which at other times the time of Sultan Achmed, the son of Sultan Mohammed, (who died in A.H. 1027,) Egypt sent yearly to Mekka two hundred and ninety-five purses, caravan pays to Bedouins and Arabs, on its road to Mekka. Sherifs in Mekka and Djidda, great merchants, olemas, and all the chief Tayf and Medina being now halfruined, the merchants of Mekka resort to Djidda, as their only place of small parties of pilgrims in their route from Medina or Djidda to Mekka, poor people, in starting from Mekka for Medina with the great caravan,

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  Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred


id: 34959
title: Khaled, A Tale of Arabia
author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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  ''Allah knows,'' Khaled said, as though answering her. ''Tell the Sultan,'' said Khaled, ''that a man is here who has neither ''I come,'' said Khaled boldly, ''to ask your daughter Zehowah in marriage. ''I have seen this man, I have heard him speak,'' said Zehowah. When the time for the feast came the Sultan led Khaled into the great ''A dead man has no companions,'' said the Sultan, looking at Khaled to ''Khaled is the Sultan,'' said Zehowah. Khaled looked at Zehowah, but she said nothing, though she watched ''The Sultan Khaled loves black eyes,'' she said. then I killed him,'' said Khaled, and Zehowah could get no other answer, ''I think that so long as Khaled lives, Zehowah need not bear arms,'' said ''You also wish to know it, I see,'' said Khaled, looking at Zehowah If Khaled had been a man like other men, as Zehowah supposed him to be,


id: 38253
title: A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
author: nan
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  time ago on account of the great trade in gold which they carry on country saw such great destruction of their people and ships, The King of Guzarat is a great lord, both in revenue and people, and This King possesses great cities in his kingdom, and especially the river, with a large town called Baticala,[167] of very great trade very large town, peopled by Moors and Gentiles, of the kingdom of said that many men come from all the other kingdoms to this king''s has a Moorish king, a great lord; and in former times this kingdom women relations of the kings and great lords come also to see the king lives, towards the south is a very good town called Cananor.] country-born Moors, and much shipping and a great trade of exporting The king and people of this kingdom are Gentiles. kingdom of Gentiles which has a king who resides in a very great and


id: 39463
author: Hume-Griffith, A.
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  The Kerman of to-day is a large walled-in city of about forty thousand I once saw a little girl about seven years old sitting by the roadside the day, and certainly a good cellar is a great boon to a European, one sad day the poor young wife hears that her husband is about to become little women before they had passed out of childhood''s days, ago I heard of a little black boy in Mosul, whose mother, a Moslem The children of Mosul have on the whole a very good time. I was visiting one day in a Moslem house, and the old mother-in-law A short time ago a very sad and sudden death took place in Mosul in A Mosul Moslem woman told me a short time ago that she did Another day I went to visit a little patient of my husband''s in whom

title:
  Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman''s Eight Years'' Residence Amongst the Women of the East


id: 39853
title: The Lance of Kanana: A Story of Arabia
author: French, Harry W. (Harry Willard)
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  be a man?" and three times Kanana replied, "My father, I can not lift a Kanana, whom thou scornest, will be far away upon the desert, The moment the sun sank into the billows of sand Kanana had left his "I am Kanana, son of the sheik of the Beni Sads," replied the Bedouin "My father, I spoke for thy soldiers," replied Kanana, quickly. "My father," said Kanana, "as I came a little way with the caravan "Faster," said Kanana, and the long legs of the white camel swung out a "Faster," said Kanana, touching the camel''s neck with his shepherd''s "Faster!" said Kanana, and the white camel broke into a run, swinging in "Faster!" said Kanana; the camel''s head dropped till his neck lost its Kanana and his camel-driver were left alone. "Thou hast given thy life for Allah and Arabia," Kanana said, "and when


