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Whither Islam by Gibb

WHITHER ISLAM BY GIBB

Some explanation may seem to be needed for the issue of yet another book on the Islamic world of to-day. Since Lothrop Stoddard published in 1921 his far-sighted study of The New World of Islam^ the output of books and pamphlets on this subject has increased by leaps and bounds.

 Not to speak of works in the Islamic languages themselves and in the lesser-known languages of Europe, the student of the Moslem East has an embarrassing choice of books by Jung, Valyi, Meyerhof, Zwemer, O’Leary, Kohn, Hartmann, and many others, together with a host of monographs on contemporary movements in the separate Moslem lands.

It is no depreciation of the value of these works that they lay most stress on the political aspects of the problem, and that few of them embrace the whole range of the Islamic world.

The papers contributed to the present volume aim rather at analysing the inner currents of thought among the Moslem peoples.

For this task no single scholar could claim full competence, since such a study, resting not only upon personal contacts but also upon a thorough acquaintance with the literature produced in each country, demands a knowledge of such different