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THE NEW WORLD OF ISLAM

BY

LOTHROP STODDARD, A.M., Ph.D. (Harv.)

AUTHOR OF: THE RISING TIDE OF COLOUR,

THE STAKES OF THE WAR,

PRESENT DAY EUROPE: ITS NATIONAL STATES OF MIND,

THE TRENCH REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO, ETC.

WITH MAP

SECOND IMPRESSION

LONDON

CHAPMAN AND HALL, Ltd.

1922[Pg iv]

Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons Limited. Bungay, Suffolk

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PREFACE

The entire world of Islam is to-day in profound ferment. From Morocco toChina and from Turkestan to the Congo, the 250,000,000 followers of theProphet Mohammed are stirring to new ideas, new impulses, newaspirations. A gigantic transformation is taking place whose resultsmust affect all mankind.

This transformation was greatly stimulated by the late war. But it beganlong before. More than a hundred years ago the seeds were sown, and eversince then it has been evolving; at first slowly and obscurely; latermore rapidly and perceptibly; until to-day, under the stimulus ofArmageddon, it has burst into sudden and startling bloom.

The story of that strange and dramatic evolution I have endeavoured totell in the following pages. Considering in turn its variousaspects—religious, cultural, political, economic, social—I have triedto portray their genesis and development, to analyse their character,and to appraise their potency. While making due allowance for localdifferentiations, the intimate correlation and underlying unity of thevarious movements have ever been kept in view.

Although the book deals primarily with the Moslem world, it necessarilyincludes the non-Moslem Hindu elements of India. The field covered isthus virtually the entire Near and Middle East. The Far East has notbeen directly considered, but parallel developments there have beennoted and should always be kept in mind.

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