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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Page 11
... authorities are as dis- concerting as they are surprising . The total population of the Moslem world , for example , has been variously estimated as follows : Statesman's Year Book , 1890 Brockhaus , " Convers - Lexicon , " 203,600,000 ...
... authorities are as dis- concerting as they are surprising . The total population of the Moslem world , for example , has been variously estimated as follows : Statesman's Year Book , 1890 Brockhaus , " Convers - Lexicon , " 203,600,000 ...
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... authority , during the last decade it increased by 9.1 per cent . while the population of India as a whole increased by only 1.9 per cent . Next to India Java has the largest Moslem population of any country in the world , with a total ...
... authority , during the last decade it increased by 9.1 per cent . while the population of India as a whole increased by only 1.9 per cent . Next to India Java has the largest Moslem population of any country in the world , with a total ...
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... authorities were quoted . " The absorption of native races into Islam is proceeding rapidly and continuously in practically all parts of the con- tinent . The Commission has had convincing evidence of this fact brought to its attention ...
... authorities were quoted . " The absorption of native races into Islam is proceeding rapidly and continuously in practically all parts of the con- tinent . The Commission has had convincing evidence of this fact brought to its attention ...
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... authority of the religious law of Islam as final , including the traditional law of Shiah interpretation , as well as the Koran . " One might as well bind together the American Constitution and the Talmud , " says Dr. Shedd , " and make ...
... authority of the religious law of Islam as final , including the traditional law of Shiah interpretation , as well as the Koran . " One might as well bind together the American Constitution and the Talmud , " says Dr. Shedd , " and make ...
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... authority liars are punished by the pulling out of the tongue and thieves by the amputation of the hand . The conflict between the old and the Young Turkish Party is not only inevitable , but is irreconcilable . Both parties are ...
... authority liars are punished by the pulling out of the tongue and thieves by the amputation of the hand . The conflict between the old and the Young Turkish Party is not only inevitable , but is irreconcilable . Both parties are ...
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Page 8 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Page 176 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
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Page 8 - When the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Page 203 - Musulman should be exempt from the jizya, or poll-tax. Information of this came to the ears of the people at large, and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and were admitted to the honour of Islam.
Page 203 - Information of this came to the ears of the people at large and great numbers of Hindus presented themselves, and were admitted to the honour of Islam. Thus they came forward day by day from every quarter, and, adopting the faith, were exonerated from the jizyah, and were favoured with presents and honours.