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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

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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