📘 ❞ The Preaching Of Islam ❝ كتاب ــ توماس أرنولد اصدار 1913

عن كتاب The Preaching Of Islam:





e first edition of this book having been out of print for several years and
frequent inquiries having been made for copies, this new edition has been
prepared and an effort has been made to revise the work in the light of the fresh
materials tha
t have accumulated during the last sixteen years; but I can make no
claim to have made myself acquainted with the whole of the vast literature on
the subject, in upwards of ten different languages, which has been published
during this interval. The growing
interest in Islam and the various branches of
study connected with it, may be estimated from the fact that since 1906 five
periodicals have made their appearance devoted to investi
gations cognate to the
subject
-
matter of the present work, viz.
Revue du M
onde Musulman, publié
e
par La Mission Scientifique du Maroc (
Paris, 1906
-
); Der Islam, Zeitschrift fü
r
Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (Strassburg, 1910
-
)
; The
Moslem World, a quarterly review of current events, literature, and thought
amon
g Mohammedans, and the progress of Christian Missions in Moslem lands
(London, 1911
-
); Mir Islama (St. Petersburg, 1912
-
); and Die Welt des Islams,
Zeitschrift der deutschen Gesellschaft f
ü
r Islamkunde (Berlin, 1913
—
). The
Christian missionary societies
are also now devoting increased attention to the
subject of Muslim missionary activity and accordingly it takes up a
proportionately larger place in their publications than before.
This second edition would have been completed several years ago but for th
e
illiberal policy which closes the Reading Room of the British Museum at 7
o'clock and has thus made it practically inaccessible to me except on Saturdays.
1
I therefore desire to express my grateful thanks to those friends who have
facilitated my labours
by the loan of books from the Libraries of the University
of Leiden and the University of Utrecht (through the kind offices of
Professor
Wensinck), and the É
cole des Langues Or
ientales Vivantes, Paris;
—
to Mr.
J. A.
Oldham, editor of The Inter
national Revi
ew of Missions, I am indebted for the
loan of volumes of the Allgemeine Missions
-
Zeitschrift, a set of which I have
been unable to find in London; my thanks are specially due to Dr. F. W.
Thomas, who has allowed me to study for lengthy periods (along with
other
books from the India Office Library) the monumental
Annali dell' Islam
by
Leone Caetani, Principe di Teano,
—
a work of inestimable value for the early
history of Islam, but unfor
tunately placed out of the reach of the average scholar
by reason of its
great cost.
I am also much indebted for several valuable indications to those scholars who
reviewed the book when it first appeared,
—
above all, to Professor Goldziher,
whose sym
pathetic interest in this work has encouraged me to continue it.
London, 1913
.
1
The Student of t
he l
i
teratue of Science or of the fine Arts finds the libaries at South Kensington open till 10
o'clock on three evenings every week, but the one library in this country that aims at any completeness is
available only to such students as are at leisure dur
ing the day
-
time.
Calling to Islam is an obligation for those who obtain the knowledge. However, calling to Islam is a skillful matter that has special etiquette which needs to be educated to the callers of Islam.