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Title: The New World of Islam

Author: Lothrop Stoddard

Release Date: January 1, 2008 [EBook #24107]

Language: English

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THE NEW WORLD OF ISLAM

BY

LATHROP STODDARD, A.M., PH.D. (Harv.)

AUTHOR OF: THE RISING TIDE OF COLOUR,
THE STAKES OF THE WAR,
PRESENT DAY EUROPE: ITS NATIONAL STATES OF MIND,
THE TRENCH REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO, ETC.

WITH MAP

_SECOND IMPRESSION_

LONDON

CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD.

1922
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
RICHARD CLAY & SONS LIMITED.
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK

PREFACE

The entire world of Islam is to-day in profound ferment. From Morocco to
China and from Turkestan to the Congo, the 250,000,000 followers of the
Prophet Mohammed are stirring to new ideas, new impulses, new
aspirations. A gigantic transformation is taking place whose results
must affect all mankind.

This transformation was greatly stimulated by the late war. But it began
long before. More than a hundred years ago the seeds were sown, and ever
since then it has been evolving; at first slowly and obscurely; later
more rapidly and perceptibly; until to-day, under the stimulus of
Armageddon, it has burst into sudden and startling bloom.

The story of that strange and dramatic evolution I have endeavoured to
tell in the following pages. Considering in turn its various
aspects--religious, cultural, political, economic, social--I have tried
to portray their genesis and development, to analyse their character,
and to appraise their potency. While making due