The Women of the Arabs

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Author

Jessup, Henry Harris, 1832-1910

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Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Stacy Brown Thellend, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Arabs

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Text

eBook-No.

17278

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17278

Release Date

December 11, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WOMEN — OF — THE ARABS. — WITH A CHAPTER FOR CHILDREN. — BY
2. 2.Rev. HENRY HARRIS JESSUP, D.D., — Seventeen years American Missionary in Syria. — NEW YORK: DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS. — THIS BOOK — IS DEDICATED TO THE — CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF AMERICA.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — THE — Women of the Arabs .
5. 5.CHAPTER I. — STATE OF WOMEN AMONG THE ARABS OF THE JAHILIYEH, OR THE "TIMES OF THE IGNORANCE."
6. 6.CHAPTER II. — STATE OF WOMEN IN THE MOHAMMADAN WORLD.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. — THE DRUZE RELIGION AND DRUZE WOMEN. — SITT ABLA. — KHOZMA.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. — NUSAIRIYEH.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. — CHRONICLE OF WOMEN'S WORK FROM 1820 TO 1872.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. — MRS. WHITING'S SCHOOL.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. — DR. DE FOREST'S WORK IN BEIRUT. — FRUITS OF DR. DE FOREST'S GIRL'S SCHOOL.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. — RE-OPENING OF THE SCHOOL IN BEIRUT.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. — LUCIYA SHEKKUR.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. — RAHEEL.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. — HUMS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. — MIRIAM THE ALEPPINE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. — MODERN SYRIAN VIEWS WITH REGARD TO FEMALE EDUCATION.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. — BEDAWIN ARABS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. — THE VALUE SET ON WOMAN'S LIFE IN SYRIA.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. — OTHER LABORS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THIS FIELD. — THE IRISH AND AMERICAN UNITED PRESBYTERIAN MISSION IN DAMASCUS. — THE BRITISH SYRIAN SCHOOLS. — BRITISH SYRIAN SCHOOLS , 1872. — MISS TAYLOR'S SCHOOL FOR MOSLEM GIRLS. — CHURCH OF SCOTLAND SCHOOL FOR JEWISH GIRLS IN BEIRUT.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE AMOUNT OF BIBLICAL INSTRUCTION GIVEN IN MISSION SCHOOLS. — THE SPHERE AND MODES OF WOMAN'S WORK IN FOREIGN LANDS. — THE BEIRUT FEMALE SEMINARY. — THE SIDON FEMALE SEMINARY.
23. 23.THE CHILDREN'S CHAPTER. — PART I. — PART II. — PART III. — PART IV. — THE LULLABY. — PART V. — PART VI. — THE NURSERY RHYMES OF THE ARABS. — PART VII.
24. 24.INDEX. — Transcriber's Notes:

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