ic form in the words of
Kipling:

East is East and West is West,
And never the twain shall meet.

To me, with regard to the Moslim world, these words seem almost a
blasphemy. The experience acquired by adapting myself to the peculiarities
of Mohammedans, and by daily conversation with them for about twenty years,
has impressed me with the firm conviction that between Islam and the modern
world an understanding _is_ to be attained, and that no period has offered
a better chance of furthering it than the time in which we are living. To
Kipling's poetical despair I think we have a right to prefer the words of
a broad-minded modern Hindu writer: "The pity is that men, led astray by
adventitious differences, miss the essential resemblances[1]."

[Footnote 1: S.M. Mitra, _Anglo-Indian Studies_, London, Longmans, Green &
Co., 1913, P. 232.]

It would be a great satisfaction to me if my lectures might cause some of
my hearers to consider the problem of Islam as one of the most important of
our time, and its solution worthy of their interest and of a claim on their
exertion.

INDEX

A

Abbas (Mohammed's uncle)
Abbasids
government
Khalifate
Abd-ul-Hamid, Sultan
Abduh, Mufti Muhammed
Abraham
Abu Bakr
Abyssinians
Africa
Africans
Agreement of the Community, _see_ 'Ijma'
Ahl al-hadith (men of tradition)
'Ajam
Al-Ash'ari
Alexander the Great
Ali, the fourth Khalif
Ali, Mohammed, the first Khedive
Alids
'amils (agents)
Anti-Christ
Arabia
Arabian, view in regard to the line of descent through a woman
tribes
prophet
heathens
migration
race
armies
Shi'ah
conquerors
origin of hajj
peninsula
Arabic, traditions
speech
arts
custom
grammar
language
Arabs
the nations conquered by the
of Christian origin
Arnold, Professor T.W.
Asia
Assassins
Augustin
Azhar-mosque

B

Bab Dereybah
Babis
Bagdad
Barbarians
Basra
Beduins
Beha'is
Bellarminius
Berber
Bible
_See_ Scriptures
Bibliander
Black Stone
Boulainvilliers, Count de
Breitinger
Buddhism
Burckhardt
Burton
Byzantine Empire
Byzantines

C

Caetani, Prince
Cairo
Casanova, Professor of Paris
Caussin de Perceval
China
Chinese
Christian
religion
influence
rituals
traditions
model of obligatory fasting
princes
states
natives of Egypt
missions
demonstrations
centres in Dar al-Islam
faith and missionaries
Christian Church
Roman Catholic
Protestant
Christianity
Christians
rel