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The Women of the Arabs

CHAPTER II
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May God grant you health! Indeed, peace to your head.

Inshullah, it is only a slight attack!" "He has pain in his back, headache, and he will not eat." "Has he any fever ?" "A little." "I will come and see _her_ this afternoon." "May God increase your good.

Good morning, sir!" The Mohammedan laws with regard to polygamy, inheritance and divorce, are a decided advance on the Pagan Arabs of "the Ignorance." The Pagan Arabs allowed any number of wives.

The Koran allows _only four_ to any believer, the prophet himself having peculiar privileges in this respect.

The modern practice of Mohammedans in taking a score or more of wives is directly contrary to the Koran.


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