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My Life and Times, 1810-1899

Author: John Bailey Adger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Our Moslem Sisters

Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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"Our Moslem Sisters: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It" is a collection of sketches by various missionaries to Moslem countries in the 18th century. It highlights the plight of women in Moslem nations at the time, and is edited by Samuel Marinus Zwemer. Zwemer, nicknamed The Apostle to Islam, was an American missionary, traveler, and scholar. After being ordained to the Reformed Church ministry by the Pella, Iowa Classis in 1890, he served as a missionary at Busrah, Bahrein, and at other locations in Arabia from 1891 to 1905. He was also a member of the Arabian Mission.

The Cruise of the Celtic Around the Mediterranean, 1902

Author: R. H. McCready
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Our Moslem Sisters: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465614109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This book with its sad, reiterated story of wrong and oppression is an indictment and an appeal. It is an indictment of the system which produces results so pitiful. It is an appeal to Christian womanhood to right these wrongs and enlighten this darkness by sacrifice and service. At the recent Mohammedan Educational Conference in Bombay the president of the gathering, the Agha Khan, himself a leading Moslem, spoke very trenchantly of the chief barriers to progress in the Moslem world. The first and greatest of these barriers in his opinion was "the seclusion of women which results in keeping half the community in ignorance and degradation and this hinders the progress of the whole." Surely the ignorance and degradation of one-half of a community which has a world population of 233 millions is a question that concerns all who love humanity. The origin of the veil of Islam was, as is well known, one of the marriage affairs of Mohammed himself, with its appropriate revelation from Allah. In the twenty-fourth Surah of the Koran women are forbidden to appear unveiled before any member of the other sex, with the exception of near relatives. And so by one verse the bright, refining, elevating influence of women was forever withdrawn from Moslem society. The evils of the zenana, the seraglio, the harem, or by whatever name it is called, are writ large over all the social life of the Moslem world. Keene says it "lies at the root of all the most important features that differentiate progress from stagnation." In Arabia before the advent of Islam it was customary to bury female infants alive. Mohammed improved on the barbaric method and discovered a way by which all females could be buried alive and yet live on—namely, the veil. How they live on, this book tells! Its chapters are not cunningly devised fables nor stories told for the story's sake. Men and women who have given of their strength and service, their love and their life to ameliorate the lives of Moslem women and carry the torch of Truth into these lands of darkness write simply the truth in a straightforward way. All the chapters were written by missionaries in the various lands represented. And with three exceptions the writers were women. The chapter on Turkestan is by a converted Moslem; and the two chapters on the Yemen and the Central Soudan are by medical missionaries. The book has as many authors as there are chapters. For obvious reasons their names are not published, but their testimony is unimpeachable and unanimous. We read what their eyes have seen, what their hands have handled, and what has stirred their hearts. It has stirred the hearts of educated Moslems too, in Egypt as well as in India. A new book on this very subject was recently published at Cairo by Kasim Ameen, a learned Moslem jurist. Although he denies that Islam is the cause, yet speaking of the present relation of the Mohammedan woman to man the author says: "Man is the absolute master and woman the slave. She is the object of his sensual pleasures, a toy, as it were, with which he plays, whenever and however he pleases. Knowledge is his, ignorance is hers. The firmament and the light are his, darkness and the dungeon are hers. His is to command, hers is to blindly obey. His is everything that is, and she is an insignificant part of that everything.

My Life and Times, 1810-1899

Our Moslem Sisters

The Cruise of the Celtic Around the Mediterranean, 1902

Our Moslem Sisters: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It

The Encyclopedia of Missions

Our Moslem Sisters

The Literary Digest

Life and Light for Heathen Women

Life and Light for Woman

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