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id: 19378
title: Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
author: Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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  ''My son, praise Allah for thy great good fortune in finding favour in horse''s legs, but had never viewed it as a badge of honour till Rashîd the usual way; but Rashîd, having chanced upon the carriage, a great ''The way of the majority of men!'' said Suleymân. Rashîd, who had been out to tend the horses, came presently and asked the villagers, and rode back up the path a little way, Rashîd obeying I told him that Suleymân was a man of learning, and then let him talk ''Now your Honour knows how we feel when we meet a man like that; and ''May Allah help thee!'' said Rashîd. ''Upon my head,'' replied the complaisant old man, laying his right hand ''The man was certainly ungrateful--curse his father!'' said Rashîd. He said: ''God knows I wish to give thee house and land since thou ''Rashîd may well be right,'' said Suleymân, ''although I cannot judge of


id: 17278
title: The Women of the Arabs
author: Jessup, Henry Harris
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  to the present time, Moslem girls have been taught to read and write and year and a half I went to Beirût and assisted in the girl''s school, In 1846, Mrs. Whiting commenced a girls'' day-school in her family at week, three little Moslem girls have been placed under Mrs. Whiting''s of a little day school for girls in my sister''s house. The Arab girls in Mrs. De Forest''s school were called together, and it was proposed that they up the results of that little school for girls twenty years ago in one little girl about seven years old said to her teacher, "I gave the Beirût, was sent to Aleppo about this time to open a girls'' school When the little girls come into our Schools little Arab boys and girls are playing around, and the women are filling little girls to school, and came home at night, and that one day a man


id: 8884
title: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
author: Burckhardt, John Lewis
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  near the half-ruined village of El Kanne [Arabic], and passed the river hour from the village is the Carmelite convent of Deir Serkis (St. Sergius,) inhabited at present by a single monk, a very worthy old man, a village called Tebne [Arabic], distant one hour and a half from mountain, half an hour distant, the ruins of Aatin [Arabic], with a Wady hours from Zaele we came to a spring called Ras el Beder [Arabic], i.e. the Moon''s Head, whose waters flow down into the plain as far as Boszra. the mountain, one hour distant, near a ruined place called Maaz. half an hour is Deir Dhami [Arabic], another ruined place, smaller than an hour passed the village Amyoun [Arabic], the chief place in the Half an hour from Aaere we passed Wady Ghothe [Arabic], with the village in the mountain, we saw the village Sendjol (Arabic), about half an hour


id: 38319
title: By Desert Ways to Baghdad
author: Wilkins, Louisa Jebb
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  looked out on it, the muleteers, the Zaptiehs, and our men sat round Hassan and Rejeb, two silent men, talked together the whole night long Hassan went out to look for a place to pitch the tent, and came back to men''s little tent on to the big stones forming the wall of our house, "We must leave some for the men," she said, with a look of apology, as Arten would look nervously round, knowing from long habit that he the river wound its way slowly in and out round mud banks; the country "Yes," said X, "and a looking-glass hung on the wall of his tent, and "Arten," I said to him early in the day, "if you dare to give these men As we looked upon the great plain which stretched away all round until said; "we might stop at the next good place." I looked ahead


id: 40285
title: The Syrian Christ
author: Rihbany, Abraham Mitrie
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  So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, So the prophet cries, "The Lord came unto me, saying, Son of and were eating, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you shall behold the face of my Father."[5] Speaking of a good man we said, "The Speaking of his enemy, the writer of that psalm says, "Let his days be In the seventeenth chapter of St. Matthew''s Gospel, the first verse, we read: "And after six days Jesus he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am absolutely safe in saying that every man, woman, and child in Syria Judges, thirty-sixth verse: "And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man, prophesy." When we speak


id: 44122
title: Silver Chimes in Syria: Glimpses of a Missionary''s Experiences
author: Nelson, William S.
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  Tripoli Boys'' School--_Second Home_ 150 years'' experience appears to have spent a very long time in the service; year the new missionary thought he knew the Arabic; at the end of the taking possession of our own home, came New Year''s Day. With the few days a man came to the house with a large gray mare for me to try. was not far nor the time long, I came up against a stone wall and could maintained church and school work in Aleppo for the Turkish-speaking maintained Arabic services with a Syrian preacher and a day school with seemed that the time had come to begin the full life of the little In the city of Homs the old church had a flat dirt roof supported by two [Illustration: TRIPOLI BOYS'' SCHOOL _Second Home_] One day in Homs a young man came


