"We do not suggest new organizations, but that every church and board of missions at present working in Moslem lands should take up their own women's branch of work with an altogether new ideal before them, determining to reach the whole world of Moslem women in this generation. Each part of the women's work being already carried on needs to be widely extended. Trained and consecrated women doctors; trained and consecrated women teachers; groups of women workers in the villages; an army of those with love in their hearts to seek and save the lost. And, with the willingness to take up this burden, so long neglected, for the salvation of Mohammedan women, even though it may prove a very cross of Calvary to some of us, we shall hear our Master's voice afresh ringing words of encouragement: 'Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that these things which He saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.' 'Nothing shall be impossible unto you.'" 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