Jesus Christ -- Biography; Palestine -- Social life and customs; Syria -- Social life and customs
Woman, with child, 26; East and West differ greatly in status of, 313,
314; Anglo-Saxon regard for, 313; reputed Occidental contempt for, 314,
315; culture and privileges of the American, 316; the Oriental
indifferent to fine points of behavior toward, 316, 317; the Oriental
does not consider man superior to, 317-19; Christian and Mohammedan, in
Syria, 318 n., 331; explanation of the Oriental's attitude toward, 318,
319, 322; in home of cultivated Syrian, 323, 324; Syrian attitude
toward, according to St. Paul, 325-33; of Syria, not always submissive,
329; her social privileges in the East limited because of fear for her,
330, 331, 349; a reason for veiling, in the East, 332; modesty the
chief charm of Oriental, 332; why called _hûrmat_, 333; the _harem_,
333, 334; reason for man's precedence of, in social affairs, 334, 335;
her place is in the home, 348; classified with reference to virtue and
its opposite, 351; the Oriental's descriptions of, 351-55; the
virtuous, description of, 355-64.
_Woman_, as a term of address, 340-45.
Woman-stealing, 330, 331.
Wrestling in prayer, 12.
Yusuf Balua', 305-09.
_Zad_, 249-51.
_Zeara_, the (pilgrimage to a shrine), 12-17, 47-48.
_Zûkreh_ (remembrance), 63, 65.
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