That this wonderful appeal might reach a wider circle and that its skeleton form might be clothed with the flesh and blood of real life experiences and so be not a resolution but a revelation,—this book was written. May God give its message wings through His Spirit

S. M. Zwemer.
Holland, Mich.,
February, 1907.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.[Hagar and Her Sisters]15
II.[Egypt, the Land of Bondage]24
III.[From Under the Yoke of Social Evils]38
IV.[The Women of Egypt Once More]60
V.[Behind the Opening Door in Tunis]72
VI."[Not Dead, Only Dry]"89
VII.[Light in Darkest Morocco]99
VIII.[Mohammedan Women in the Central Soudan]118
IX.[A Story from East Africa]131
X.[Our Arabian Sisters]135
XI.[Women's Life in the Yemen]146
XII.[Pen-and-Ink Sketches in Palestine]152
XIII.[Once More in Palestine]164
XIV.[Mohammedan Women in Syria]174
XV.[Behind the Lattice in Turkey]192
XVI.[A Voice from Bulgaria]204
XVII.[Darkness and Daybreak in Persia]207
XVIII.[Darkness and Daybreak in Persia (Part II)]228
XIX.[The Condition of Mohammedan Women in Baluchistan]249
XX.[In Southern India]253
XXI.[The Mohammedan Women of Turkestan]263
XXII.[In Far-off Cathay]276
XXIII.[Our Moslem Sisters in Java]283
XXIV.[The Mohammedan Women of Malaysia]287
XXV."[What Wilt Thou Have Me to Do?]"293

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Facing page
[A Mother and Her Daughter from Tunis]TITLE
[Daughters of Egypt]24
[Bargains in Oranges]60
[By the Banks of the Nile]60
[Dorothy and Fatimah]78
[Arab Woman Entering Saint's Tomb]82
[Types in Tunis and Algiers]90
[A Young Girl of the Abu Saad Tribe]96
[A Bedouin Girl from North Africa]102
[Going to Market—Two Burden Bearers]126
[Women Churning Butter in Bedouin Camp (Arabia)]136
[Moslem and Christian Cemetery, etc.]160
[A Village School in Syria]—[Moslem and Christian, etc.]170
[A Family Group at Jericho]176
[Mat-makers (Persia)]: [Indoor Dress (Northern Persia)]228
[Moslem Women of the Better Class in Street Dress (Syria)]264
[A Cry of Distress from Algiers]294