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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Women of the Arabs, by Henry Harris Jessup This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Women of the Arabs Author: Henry Harris Jessup Editor: C.S. Robinson and Isaac Riley Release Date: December 11, 2005 [EBook #17278] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WOMEN OF THE ARABS *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Stacy Brown Thellend, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) THE WOMEN OF THE ARABS. _WITH A CHAPTER FOR CHILDREN._ BY Rev. HENRY HARRIS JESSUP, D.D., _Seventeen years American Missionary in Syria._ EDITED BY Rev. C.S. ROBINSON, D.D., & Rev. ISAAC RILEY. "The threshold weeps forty days when a girl is born." --_Mt. Lebanon Proverb._ NEW YORK: DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873, by DODD & MEAD, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. _THIS BOOK_ IS DEDICATED TO THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF AMERICA. Beirut, Syria, _July, 1873_. _Owing to the impossibility of my attending personally to the editing of this volume, I requested my old friends_, Rev. C.S. Robinson, D.D., _and_ Rev. Isaac Riley, _of New York, to superintend the work, and would gratefully acknowledge their kind and disinterested aid, cheerfully proffered at no little sacrifice of time._ H.H. JESSUP. PREFACE. The Orient is the birthplace of prophecy. Before the advent of our Lord, the very air of the East was resounding with the "unconscious prophecies of heathenism." Men were in expectation of great changes in the earth. When Mohammed arose, he not only claimed to be the deliverer of a message inspired of Allah, but to foretell the events of futurity. He declared that the approach of the latter day could be distinguished by unmistakable signs, among which were two of the most notable character. Before the latter day, the _su
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