A
DICTIONARY OF ISLAM
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BEING
A CYCLOPÆDIA OF THE DOCTRINES, RITES, CEREMONIES, AND CUSTOMS, TOGETHER WITH THE TECHNICALAND THEOLOGICAL TERMS, OF THE MUHAMMADAN RELIGION.
A CYCLOPÆDIA OF THE DOCTRINES, RITES, CEREMONIES, AND CUSTOMS, TOGETHER WITH THE TECHNICALAND THEOLOGICAL TERMS, OF THE MUHAMMADAN RELIGION.
THE KAʿBAH. (Burton.)
LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN & CO., 18, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. S.W.
1885.
(All rights reserved.)
W. H. ALLEN & CO., 18, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL. S.W.
1885.
(All rights reserved.)
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DEDICATED
(WITH PERMISSION)
TO
THE RIGHT REVEREND THOMAS VALPY FRENCH, D.D., FIRST BISHOP OF LAHORE,
WITH MUCH AFFECTION AND ESTEEM, BY HIS LORDSHIP’S OBEDIENT SERVANT,
THOMAS PATRICK HUGHES.[v]
PREFACE.
The increased interest manifested in relation to all matters affecting the East, andthe great attention now given to the study of comparative religion, seem to indicatethat the time has come when an attempt should be made to place before the English-speakingpeople of the world a systematic exposition of the doctrines of the Muslim Faith.The present work is intended to supply this want, by giving, in a tabulated form,a concise account of the doctrines, rites, ceremonies, and customs, together withthe technical and theological terms, of the Muhammadan religion.
Although compiled by a clergyman who has had the privilege of being engaged in missionarywork at Peshawar for a period of twenty years, this “Dictionary of Islam” is not intended to be a controversial attack on the religious system of Muhammad,but rather an exposition of its principles and teachings.
Divided, as the Muslim world is, into numerous sects, it has been found impossibleto take into consideration all the minor differences which exist amongst them. TheDictionary is, for the most part, an exposition of the opinions of the Sunni sect,with explanations of the chief points on which the Shiah and Wahhabi schools of thoughtdiffer from it. Very special attention has been given to the views of the Wahhabis,as it is the Author’s conviction that they represent the earliest teachings of theMuslim Faith as they came from Muhammad and his immediate successors. When it is rememberedtha
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