This book contains: 1. The Preliterary age 2. Ancient semitic times 3. The Greco-Roman age 4. The Islamic age 5. In modern times-Ottomans and Persians 6. The Arab states
Here is a country that is about one-fourth the area of Europe, one-third the size of the United States of America, yet what is known about it is out of all proportion to what is unknown. We are beginning to know more, comparatively speaking, about the Arctic and Antarctic regions than we do about most of Arabia.