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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... British East Africa . The Mohammedan College at Aligarh , India Mosque at Samarkand , Central Asia Street in Askabad • Where Islam Meets Paganism in Africa : 48 76 • • 147 · 174 174 Street Singer , Assuan , Egypt , a Moslem From the ...
... British East Africa . The Mohammedan College at Aligarh , India Mosque at Samarkand , Central Asia Street in Askabad • Where Islam Meets Paganism in Africa : 48 76 • • 147 · 174 174 Street Singer , Assuan , Egypt , a Moslem From the ...
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... British India , including Cey- lon , Burma , Aden and Perim , is given as only 59,796 , - 800 ; according to the last census it is 62,458,077 for India proper . The Moslem population of Abyssinia was given at the Cairo Conference as ...
... British India , including Cey- lon , Burma , Aden and Perim , is given as only 59,796 , - 800 ; according to the last census it is 62,458,077 for India proper . The Moslem population of Abyssinia was given at the Cairo Conference as ...
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... British rule more Mohammedans than under any other government in modern or in medieval days . Counting her possessions and dependencies , at least 95,000,000 followers of the prophet of Mecca are to - day enjoying the blessings of British ...
... British rule more Mohammedans than under any other government in modern or in medieval days . Counting her possessions and dependencies , at least 95,000,000 followers of the prophet of Mecca are to - day enjoying the blessings of British ...
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... British South Africa . But just as the incursion of the British into Uganda seems to have let loose all kinds of dormant insect plagues and pests , so European civiliza- tion and railways are breaking down the barrier between the North ...
... British South Africa . But just as the incursion of the British into Uganda seems to have let loose all kinds of dormant insect plagues and pests , so European civiliza- tion and railways are breaking down the barrier between the North ...
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... British Guiana there are , according to Dr. Hartmann , 22,200 Moslems ; in Dutch Guiana , 5,800 ; in Central America and the West Indies , 20,600 . These , together with the 8,000 Moslems in the United States , make a total of 56,600 ...
... British Guiana there are , according to Dr. Hartmann , 22,200 Moslems ; in Dutch Guiana , 5,800 ; in Central America and the West Indies , 20,600 . These , together with the 8,000 Moslems in the United States , make a total of 56,600 ...
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