Islam and Missions: Being Papers Read at the Second Missionary Conference on Behalf of the Mohammedan World at Lucknow, January 23-28, 1911Elwood Morris Wherry, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, C. G. Mylrea Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911 - 298 pages |
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| Title | Islam and Missions: Being Papers Read at the Second Missionary Conference on Behalf of the Mohammedan World at Lucknow, January 23-28, 1911 |
| Editors | Elwood Morris Wherry, Samuel Marinus Zwemer, C. G. Mylrea |
| Publisher | Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911 |
| Length | 298 pages |
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