Identifier: arabiacradleofis00zwem (find matches)
Title: Arabia: the cradle of Islam : studies in the geography, people and politics of the peninsula, with an account of Islam and mission work
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1867-1952
Subjects: Missions -- Arabian Peninsula Islam Islam Arabian Peninsula Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel Arabian Peninsula -- Missions
Publisher: New York Toronto : F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ad at the top of his voice. The greatest strictnessis observed as to pronunciation and pauses but nothing what-ever is said to explain the meaning of the words. Havingthus finished the Koran, that is, read it through once, the pupiltakes up the elements of grammar, learning rules by rote bothof sarf (inflection) and 7tahw (syntax). Then follow the lib-eral sciences, al-mantik (logic), al-hisab (arithmetic), al-jabr(algebra), al-mdana wal beyan (rhetoric and versification),al-fikh (jurisprudence), al-akdid (scholastic theology), at-iafsir (exegetics), ilm ul-usul (science of sources of interpre-tation) and lastly, the capstone of education, al-ahadith (tra-ditions). Instruction is given by lectures; text-books areseldom used; lessons begin in the morning and continue for afew hours; in the afternoon they are interrupted by prayer-time. Even at Mecca the favorite place for teaching is in theMosque-court where constant interruptions and distractionsmust make it pleasant for a lazy pupil.
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IV THE HOLY LAND OF ARABIA—MEDINA Wilhin the sanctuary or bounds of the city all sins are forbidden; butthe several schools advocate difterent degrees of strictness. The ImamMalik, for instance, allows no latrinse nearer to El Medina than Jebel Ayr,a distance of about three miles. He also forbids slaying wild animals,but at the same time he specifies no punishment for the offence. Allauthors strfenuously forbid, within the boundaries, slaying man, (exceptinvaders, infidels and the sacrilegious) drinking spirits and leading animmoral life. In regard to the dignity of the sanctuary there is but oneopinion ; a number of traditions testify to its honor, praise its people andthreaten dreadful things to those who injure it or them.—Bttrton. \ BOUT seventy miles southeast of Mecca is the small but^* pleasant town of Taif, to which the pashas condemnedfor the murder of Abdul Aziz Sultan were banished. It is oneof the most interesting and attractive towns of all Arabia, beingsurrounded by

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