allowance for local
differentiations, the intimate correlation and underlying unity of the
various movements have ever been kept in view.

Although the book deals primarily with the Moslem world, it necessarily
includes the non-Moslem Hindu elements of India. The field covered is
thus virtually the entire Near and Middle East. The Far East has not
been directly considered, but parallel developments there have been
noted and should always be kept in mind.

LOTHROP STODDARD.

CONTENTS

CHAP PAGE

INTRODUCTION: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OLD ISLAMIC WORLD 1

I. THE MOHAMMEDAN REVIVAL 20

II. PAN-ISLAMISM 37

III. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WEST 75

IV. POLITICAL CHANGE 110

V. NATIONALISM 132

VI. NATIONALISM IN INDIA 201

VII. ECONOMIC CHANGE 226

VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE 250

IX. SOCIAL UNREST AND BOLSHEVISM 273

CONCLUSION 300

INDEX 301

MAP

THE WORLD OF ISLAM _at end of volume_

THE NEW WORLD OF ISLAM

"Das Alte stuerzt, es aendert sich die Zeit,
Und neues Leben blueht aus den Ruinen."

SCHILLER, _Wilhelm Tell_.

INTRODUCTION

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OLD ISLAMIC WORLD

The rise of Islam is perhaps the most amazing event in human history.
Springing from a land and a people alike previously negligible, Islam
spread within a century over half the earth, shattering great empires,
overthrowing long-established religions, remoulding the souls of races,
and building up a whole new world--the world of Islam.

The closer we examine this development the more extraordinary does it
appear. The other great religions won their way slowly, by painful
struggle, and finally triumphed with the aid of powerful monarchs
converted to the new faith. Christianity had its Constantine, Buddhism
its Asoka, and Zoroastrianis