This is merely reaction: the desert's revenge. For we now
know a little something of the condition of old Arabia and Africa in the
days ere these ardent shepherds appeared on the scene, with their crude
and chaotic monotheism. The desert has not made the Arab, any more than it
made the Berber. It would be considerably nearer the truth to reverse the
proposition: to say that the evils which now afflict Northern Africa, its
physical abandonment, its social and economical decay, are the work of
that ideal Arab, the man of Mecca. Mahomet is the desert-maker.
INDEX
Ain Moulares,
Aissouiyah,
Bagdhad,
Bekri, geographer,
Bertholon,
Biskra,
Bled-el-Adher, _see_ Tozeur
Bordereau, Pierre,
Boulanger, General,
Boujaja,
Bournu,
Bruce, James,
Cambon, M.,
Carthage,
Chotts, the,
--el Rharsa,
--Djerid,
Couillault, M.,
Desfontaines,
Djerid, the,
Dougga,
Dufresnoy, M. Paul,
Eberhardt, Isabelle,
Edrisius,
El Djem,
El Hamma,
Eloued,
Faraoun,
Feriana,
Florentinus, Bishop,
Gafsa,
--Meda Hill,
Gordian, Emperor,
Guerin,
Guifla,
Henchir Souatir,
Jebel Assalah,
Jebel Guettor,
Jebel Orbata,
Jebel Zitouna,
Kairouan.
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