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Across The World of Islam Studies in Aspects of The Mohammedan Faith and In the Present Awaken- Ing of The Moslem Multitudes by Samuel M. Zwemef

ACROSS THE WORLD OF ISLAM

One who has lived in, and wandered for thirty-eight years across, the wide world of Islam gathers much in his menta.

In this volume he opens his beg- gar’s basket to the reader, and offers a share of the spoil collected from Cairo to Casablanca, from Cape- town to Calcutta, albeit a miscellany.

The unity of the world of Islam, its fascination, its desperate needs and its marvelous awakening life have impressed all who study the subject.

There are byways as well as high- ways which we ask the reader to traverse, but all lead to the same goal, and each chapter, we trust, adds its line or two to what is after all only a part of a great living panorama.

Some of the chapters appeared originally as articles in leading missionary magazines. To the editors of these publications, we are indebted for permission to reprint in revised form.

The title of the book may seem to include more than its contents. Some of the gaps in the survey are accidental, others intentional.

My earlier book on Arabia has long been superseded in a whole series of illuminating volumes by explorers, travelers, and missionaries.

Egypt and Turkey, it is true, occupy the front page of the press on the Near East, but in neither country have Nationalism nor the conflicting forces of Islam itself yet reached stable equilibrium. Although I saw somewhat of Chinese Islam in 1917