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Title: Mohammedanism
Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth,
and Its Present State

Author: C. Snouck Hurgronje

Release Date: November 21, 2003 [EBook #10163]

Language: English

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_AMERICAN LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS_

SERIES OF 1914-1915

Mohammedanism

Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present
State

by

C. Snouck Hurgronje

Professor of the Arabic Language in the University of Leiden, Holland

1916

ANNOUNCEMENT.

The American Lectures on the History of Religions are delivered under
the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of
Religions. This Committee was organized in 1892, for the purpose of
instituting "popular courses in the History of Religions, somewhat after
the style of the Hibbert Lectures in England, to be delivered by the best
scholars of Europe and this country, in various cities, such as Baltimore,
Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia."

The terms of association under which the Committee exists are as follows:

1.--The object of this Committee shall be to provide courses of lectures on
the history of religions, to be delivered in various cities.

2.--The Committee shall be composed of delegates from the institutions
agreeing to co-operate, with such additional members as may be chosen by
these delegates.

3.--These delegates--one from each institution, with the additional members
selected--shall constitute themselves a council under the name of the
"American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions."

4.--The Committee shall elect out of its number a Chairman, a Secretary,
and a Treasurer.

5.--All matters of local detail shall be left to the co-operating
institutions under whose auspices the lectures are to be delivered.

6.--A course of lectures on some religion, or phase of religion, from
an historical point of vie