Blunt, Wilfred Scawen, 1840-1922 / 2008-05-22 00:00:00
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THE FUTURE OF ISLAM
BY
WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT
"La taknatu addurru yontharu akduhu
Liauda ahsana fin nithami wa ajmala."
"Fear not. Often pearls are unstrung
To be put in better order."
_Published by permission of the Proprietors of the "Fortnightly Review"_
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1882
PREFACE.
These essays, written for the _Fortnightly Review_ in the summer and
autumn of 1881, were intended as first sketches only of a maturer work
which the author hoped, before giving finally to the public, to complete
at leisure, and develop in a form worthy of critical acceptance, and of
the great subject he had chosen. Events, however, have marched faster
than he at all anticipated, and it has become a matter of importance
with him that the idea they were designed to illustrate should be given
immediate and full publicity. The French, by their invasion of Tunis,
have precipitated the Mohammedan movement in North Africa; Egypt has
roused herself for a great effort of national and religious reform; and
on all sides Islam is seen to be convulsed by political portents of
ever-growing intensity.
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