Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Oriental Encounters, by Marmaduke Pickthall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Author: Marmaduke Pickthall Release Date: September 25, 2006 [eBook #19378] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ORIENTAL ENCOUNTERS*** E-text prepared by Jeannie Howse and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Million Book Project (http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Million Book Project. See http://www.archive.org/details/OrientalEncounters Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved. Inconsistent spellings of Arabic terms have been preserved. A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the end of this document. ORIENTAL ENCOUNTERS ORIENTAL ENCOUNTERS PALESTINE AND SYRIA (1894-5-6) BY MARMADUKE PICKTHALL LONDON: 48 PALL MALL W. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD. GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND Copyright 1918 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 I.