The Future of Islam - Classic Reprint Author:Wilfrid Scawen Blunt THE FUTURE OF ISLAM. CHAPTER 1. CENSU~ OF THE MOHAMMEDAN WORLD. THE HAJ. IN the lull, which we hope is soon to break the storm of party strife in England, it may not perhaps be impossible to direct public attention to the rapid growth of questions which for the last few years have been agitating the religious mind of Asia, and which are certain ... more »before long to present themselves as a very serious perplexity to British statesmen; questions, moreover, which if not dealt with by them betimes, it will later be found out of their power to deal with at all, though a vigorous policy at the present moment might yet solve them to this country's very great advantage. The revival which is taking place in the Moham- B
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; PAGE; CENSUS OF THE MOHAMMEDAN WORLD THE HAJ I; CHAPTER II; THE MODERN QUESTION OF THE CALIPHATE; CHAPTER III; THE TRUE METROPOLIS-MECCA 90; CHAPTER IV; A MOHAMMEDAN REFORMATION 132; CHAPTER V; ENGLAND'S INTEREST IN ISLAM 174
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