CONTENTS
 

A WORLD OF MOSLEM CHILDHOOD.....19

The conquest of Constantinople — The challenge of St.
Sophia — The Moslem problem a unity — Its childhood
a proof — Statistics of childhood — Their numbers in
Africa, India, Algeria — The areas covered — The
meuzzin's call from the Pacific to the Atlantic — Many
areas and languages — National responsibility: Amer¬
ica, England — The urgency of the task.
 

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ENVIRONMENT..........41

Islam born in the desert — Margoliouth's theory of the
heat belt — The imprint of the desert on Islam — The
nomad environment and its types of civilization: Balu¬
chistan — A typical village on the Nile — The bazaar at
Algiers — The lot of womanhood in the city and among
the nomads — Persian village life — Constantinople —
Islam among pagan races — In China — In Java — The
Moslem type of civilization — Degradation of woman¬
hood— Child marriage — Ignorance of medicine —
Fatalism — A cry of pain — A new environment.
 

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BIRTH, INFANCY, AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS .       .      69

The right of the child to be well born — The effect of
heredity — Contagious diseases — Mortality of infants:
in Egypt, Turkey, India, Syria, Morocco — An incident
from Arabia — Bedouin children — The children of
Kashgar — The leper boy — Moosa's baby — Inferiority
of girls — Legitimacy — Ceremonies observed at birth:
in China, ^ Egypt, India — Aqiqah — Circumcision —
Early marriage and its results — Ignorance of medicine
■—-Magic in Turkey — Medicine in Arabia — Algerian
superstitions — Child labour in Arabia; in Persia.
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