The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
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Nationality of Pilgrims. |Arriving|Arriving| Mussulman |by Sea. |by Land.| population | | | represented. -----------------------------------------+--------+--------+------------ Ottoman subjects including pilgrims from | | | Syria and Irak, but not from Egypt or | | | Arabia proper | 8,500 | 1,000 | 22,000,000 | | | Egyptians | 5,000 | 1,000 | 5,000,000 | | | Mogrebbins ("people of the West"), that | | | is to say Arabic-speaking Mussulmans | | | from the Barbary States, Tripoli, | | | Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco. These are | | | always classed together and are not | | | easily distinguishable from each other | 6,000 | ... | 18,000,000 | | | Arabs from Yemen | 3,000 | ... | 2,500,000 | | | " " Oman and Hadramaut | 3,000 | ... | 3,000,000 | | | " " Nejd, Assir, and Hasa, most | | | of them Wahhabites | ... | 5,000 | 4,000,000 | | | " " Hejaz, of these perhaps | | | 10,000 Meccans | ... | 22,000 | 2,000,000 | | | Negroes from Soudan | 2,000 | ... | 10,000,000(?) | | | |
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