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THE ASCENSION OF MOHAMMED  
  Frontispiece From D’Ohsson’s Tableau General de l’ Empire Othoman.
TOMB OF EVE AT JEDDAH 6
SHERIF’S HOUSE AT MECCAH 12
COIN, WITH ABYSSINIAN KING APHIDAS ON OBVERSE, AND ON REVERSE THE LAST JEWISH KING OF YEMEN, DHU NUWAS OR DIMEAN 36
  From Rüppell, Reise in Abessinien, t. viii., pl. vi.; vol. ii., pp. 344 and 429.  
THE WELL ZEMZEM 48
  From Ali Bey’s Travels  
VIEW OF ARAFAT 51
BEDOUIN ARABS STORY-TELLING 59
  Drawn by Alfred Fredericks  
THE BLACK STONE 79
  From Ali Bey’s Travels  
POSTURES OF PRAYER MOSQUE OF OMAR, JERUSALEM 102
  From Archer and Kingsford’s Story of the Crusades. 128
Æ. EARLY MOSLEM COIN 133
  (Bodleian Library.) Cf. Lane-Poole, Or. Coins of the British Museum, i., p. 174, 4.  
AR. COIN OF KHOSROES II., WITH MOSLEM FORMULA ADDED 133
  Bodleian Library.  
AV. COIN OF HERACLIUS I. AND HERACLIUS CONSTANTINE 133
  (Bodleian Library.) Cf. Sabatier, Monnaies Byzantines, pl. xxix., 18.  
AR. COIN OF KHOSROES II 133
  (Bodleian Library.) Cf. Longpérier, Dynastie Sassanide, pl. xi., 4.  
Æ. MOSLEM IMITATION OF COIN OF HERACLIUS, STRUCK AT EMESA 133
  (Bodleian Library.) Cf. Lane-Poole, Or. Coins of the British Museum, ix., p. 6.  
VIEW OF MASSOUA 157
  From a lithograph.  
OBELISKS AT AXUM 160
  From an engraving.  
ON THE ROAD TO MEDINAH 210
CUFIC KORAN IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, SURAH LXXII, 27, 28, AND LXXIII., 1, 2 219
CAMELS OF BURDEN RESTING  
  From De Laborde’s Voyage en Syrie. 244
A CARAVAN HALTED 252
  From a photograph.  
ARAB WOMAN ATTENDING WOUNDED MAN 291
  From Mayeux’s Bedouins.  
TOMB OF THE MARTYRS NEAR MEDINAH 306
CARAVAN FACING JEBEL NUR 311
THE DROMEDARY OF THE DESERT 341
  Etching by R. Swain Gifford.  
PANORAMA OF MECCAH 345
  From the “Hilal,” 1902.  
LETTER OF THE PROPHET TO THE “MUKAUKIS,” DISCOVERED BY M. ÉTIENNE BARTHÉLÉMY; BELIEVED BY SEVERAL SCHOLARS TO BE THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT 365
  From the “Hilal,” Nov. 1904.  
VIEW OF MINA 372
  From Ali Bey’s Travels.  
PILGRIMS LEAVING ARAFAT 382
THE KA’BAH WITH THE STATION OF ABRAHAM 386
  From the “Hilal.”  
THE HOLY CARPET 394
  From the “Hilal.”  
A BEDOUIN ON A CAMEL 436
SABÆAN INSCRIPTION 440
  In the British Museum.  
THE REMAINS OF A PALACE AT AXUM 443
  From an engraving.  
THE HOLY MOSQUE AT MECCAH 444
  From the “Hilal.”  
THE KA’BAH WITH PILGRIMS PRAYING 460
PLAN OF MECCAH } AT END
MAP OF ARABIA IN THE 7TH CENTURY A.D.
MAP OF WEST CENTRAL ARABIA IN THE 7TH CENTURY A.D.