Islam and Missions

ISLAM AND MISSIONS

Samuel M. Zwemer

1911

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Biographical Sketch of the Author
Samuel M. Zwemer (1867-1952)
(from the introduction)

Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer was a missionary for many years in lands regions west and northwest of the Persian Gulf, including Bahrain where two of his daughters are buried. He learned Arabic, became a master of the Moslem philosophy. He loved the Mohammedans and worked constantly to evangelize the Moslem world.

Dr. Zwemer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. In 1929 he was appointed Professor of Missions and the History of Religion at Princeton University, a position he held to retirement in 1938. Following retirement he taught courses at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Missionary Training Institute and at Biblical Seminary in New York City.

Note: See the Columbia International University biography of Samuel Zwemer for further information.

CONTENTS

I. An Introductory Survey 9

Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer, D.D., F.R.G.S., Arabia
009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042

II. Pan-Islamism in Turkey 43

Rev. W.S. Nelson, D.D., Syria

043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052

III. Pan-Islamism in Africa 53

Rev. Friedrich Würz, Basel
053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062

IV. The Dervish Orders in Africa 63

Rev. Canon E. Sell, D.D., Madras
063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075

V. The Moslem Advance in Africa 76

Prof. Carl Meinhoff, LL.D., Hamburg
076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086

VI. Pan-Islamism in Malaysia 87

Rev. G. Simon, Sumatra
087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099

VII. Political Changes in Turkey 100

Prof. F. Stewart Crawford, Beirut
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115

VIII. Political Changes in Arabia 116

Rev. J. C. Young, M.D., Aden, Arabia
116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127

IX. Political Changes in Persia 128

Rev. L. F. Esselstyn, Persia
128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140

X. The Situation in India 141

Rev. W. A. Wilson, M.S., D.D, Indore
141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158

XI. The Old and the New Régime in Turey 159

Rev. S. V. R. Trowbridge, Aintab, Turkey
159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171

XII. Conditions in Central Asia 172

Colonel G. Wingate, C.I.E. London
172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182

XIII. Islam Under Pagan Rule 183

Rev. Charles R. Watson, D.D., Philadelphia
183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194

XIV. Islam Under Christian Rule 195

Rev. W. H. T. Gardner, B.A., Cairo.
195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205

XV. Moslem Advance in India 206

Rev. John Takle, Bengal
206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219

XVI. Moslem Advance in Malaysia 220

Rev. N. Adriani, Celebes
220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232

XVII. Islam in China 233

Mr. F. H. Rhodes, China
233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248

XVIII. Islam in Russia 249

Miss Jennie Von Meyer, Tiflis
249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272

XIX. Reform Movements in India 273

Rev. Canon H. U. Weitbrecht, Ph. D., D.D., Simla
273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287

XX. Reform Movements in the Near East 288

Rev. John Giffen, D.D., Cairo
288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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frontispiece	Mohammedan Religious Service at Delhi, India
Facing page 48	Islam and Modernism. Opening of Parliament by the Sultan at Constantinople. The Sultan -- Caliph Stands Alone in the Central Box
Facing page 76	Mosque at Mombassa, British East Africa
Facing page 147	The Mohammedan College at Aligarth, India
Facing page 174	Mosque at Samarkand, Central Asia
Facing page 174	Street in Askabad
Facing page 187	Where Islam Meets Paganism in Africa: Street Singer, Assuan, Egypt, a Moslem from the Nyam-nyam Tribe
Facing page 187	AWhere Islam Meets Paganism in Africa: Warriors of the Bisharin Tribe, Pagans, in the Eastern Sudan
Facing page 234	Chinese Mohammedans: A Mohammedan Teacher
Facing page 234	Chinese Mohammedans: Butchers from West China
Facing page 273	The Late Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan, Founder of the Mohammedan College at Aligarh