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Outline of Islam

OUTLINE OF ISLAM

The quest for God is one in which all nations have shared. Call Him what they may, all peoples seek God, though they seek not as do we.

Yet to understand both their unity with and differences from us must help to closer sympathy and respect.

The purpose of this series is not critical nor apologetic, but rather is it descriptive.

It is that of giving some account, by reference to the scriptures and great teachers of other religions, of the way in which the faiths of the world have faced the same spiritual issues that are ours.

In this respect they are intended as a simply written contribution to the work of the Comparative Study of Religions.

It is not possible, even in a short description of Islam, to avoid the use of Arabic proper names and technical terms.

Some of the names, such as Omar and Ayesha, are familiar to the general English reader; the majority, perhaps, are not.

On the whole it seems best to keep to one uniform and generally accepted scheme of transliteration for all Arabic words, and in the case of any name that is well known to put in brackets beside it, where it is first mentioned, the usual English form.

 The only excep¬ tions are f ami liar place names, such as Mecca, which will more easily be found in an atlas if the usual English spelling is followed.

The scheme of transliteration will be familiar to those who read Arabic.