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Aspects of Islam by Macdonald, Duncan Black

ASPECTS OF ISLAM

This present volume contains the Hartford- Lamson Lectures for 1909.

To the eight lectures actually delivered in accordance with the require- ments of that foundation two have here been added, the present eighth and ninth, in order somewhat to round out these aspects of Islam and to make them a more complete introduction for the young missionary to his new and strange world.

For this is a book for beginners rather than scholars; it deals in broad outlines and statements and not in details and qualifications.

Yet I would not suggest that I have made assertions more sweeping than can be defended. Nothing is set down in these pages that I am not prepared to maintain with proof at length, although I am well aware that there are some statements here which some Arabists will regard dubiously.

I would entreat such to believe that they are not due to careless rhetoric but have sprung from long consideration and express set- tled convictions. It has seemed best also to re-