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Notes: The Islamic World, edited by Mustafa Khan, B.A., M.R.A.S., at Lahore, India, publishes the following article. This quarterly journal is “devoted to propagate and defend Islam against its hostile critics and to study the progress of Islamic thought, literature, art and civilization in the world.” An editorial in the same number of its first year of issue states that“Islam and Christianity are engaged in a spiritual contest. The struggle is becoming keener every day. Each party is endeavoring to win over the greater part of humanity to itself. Moslems have been so far in slumber, yet they are now gradually awakening to the call of Islam, and are rallying forth to the banner of the Prophet (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). They have realized the gravity of the situation, and are prepared to face it bravely. I say bravely, because the contrast of the two religions presents a scene of vast difference. Christianity has got enormous funds, enormous resources and enormous influence as the state religion of America, Australia and Europe. Islam on the other hand is, at present, devoid of wealth, influence and the political power. Yet it has got that enormous force—the spiritual and moral force which is the greatest asset of a religion and which can surely win the day. Islam made its appearance in humble position, and from this it rose to the zenith of power, simply through its spiritual and moral stamina Even now it has got the same potentiality. What is wanted is the united effort of the whole Islamic world to put the injunctions of the Holy Koran into practice and to disseminate the teachings of Islam all over the globe.”We believe that the readers of our quarterly will be interested in the study of the following article which we, therefore, reprint. The author, M. K. Andrew, is evidently a convert to Islam in India.—Editor.

Notes: This careful study pf the Mohammedan forces in the Guntur District, South India, appeared in the Gospel Witness, a magazine published by the Lutheran Mission. As a study in comparative religion it iS illuminatng.-Ed.

Notes: Books reviewed in this article The Traditions of Islam. An introduction to the study of the Hadith Literature. By Alfred Guillaume, M.A. Oxford Press, 1924 pp. 184. Price $3.50. An Ancient Syriac Translation of the Koran exhibiting new Verses and Variants, by A. Mingana, D.D. Reprinted with corrections and Additions from the Bulletin of the John Ryland's Library, Vol. ix. No. 1, January 1925, with Facsimiles. Manchester 1925. Langmans (2/-). Algazeliana. I. Sur Dix Publications Relatives A Alagazel. P. M. Bouyges, S. J. pp. 40. Imprimerie Catholique. Beqrouth(Syrie). 1922. La Politica Asiatica Dei Bolscevichi. I. Cina—Giappon—India—Persia Aurelio Palmieri. pp. 291.Nicola Zanichelli, Bologna. The Influence of the Desert on Early Islam. By William Harmon Norton. Reprint from The Journal of Religion. Vol. IV. No. 4 1924 pp. 13. Het Geesteleven der Natuurvolken. by H. Kluin. N. V. Algemeene Boekhandel voor Inwendige en Uitwendige Zending te Gravenhage. pp. 226. Het Geestesleven der Natuurvolken. by H. Kluin. N. V. Algemeene Boekhandel voor Inwendige en Uitwendige Zending te Gravenhage. pp. 226. Buntes Prachtgewand: Uber die Guten Eigenschaften der Abessinier von Muhammad Iben Abdalbaqi al Buhari al Makki. Literarhistorisch Untersucht und Ubersetzt von Max Weisweiler. 1 Teil, Hanover, 1924. Orient-Buchhandlung, Heinz Lafaire, pp. 127. Orient et Occident. Par René Guénon. Payot, Paris. pp. 249. Fr. 7 50. What God Hath Used. A selection of some thirty translations. Edited by Arthur T. Upson. With a Preface by the Right Rev. J. H. Linton, Bishop in Persia, pp. 202. Nile Mission Press, Nile House, Tunbridge Wells, England. Servant of Sahibs: A Book to Read Aloud. By Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Aksakal of Leth; with an introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband. W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., Cambridge. 1923. pp. 282. Price 9/- net. Von Mohammed Bis Ghazali; Quellentexte aus dem Arabischen Uebersetzt und Eingeleitet Von Joseph Hell. Diederichs: Jena. 1923. pp. 164. Price 5 gold marks. A Palestine Note Book 1918–1923. By C. R. Ashbee, M. A. William Heinemann: London, pp. 278. Price 12/6. New Guide to the Holy Land. By Father Barnabas Meistermann, Missionary Apostolic. Translated from the New, Revised, and Re-Arranged French Edition. Burns Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. London, pp. 744. Price 10/6. La Nouvelle Turquie, par Mme. Berthe Goerges-Gaulis. Un volume in-18 Librairie Armand Colin, pp. 282. 7 fr. The Uniate Eastern Churches. The Byzantine Rite in Italy, Sicily, Syria and Egypt. By Adrian Fortescue, Edited by George D. Smith. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. London. 1923. pp. 244. Indian Politics. A survey by J. T. Gwynn. With an introduction by Lord Meston, K. C. S. I., LL.D. London. Nisbet & Co. Ltd. 22 Berners Street, W. 1. 12/6 pp. 339. Gandhi and the Indianisation of the Empire. By J. F. Bryant, M.A., F.G.S., I.C.S. J. Hall & Son, Cambridge, 1924. pp. 228. 4/6. African Questions at the Paris Peace Conference. With papers on Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Colonial Settlement By George Louis Beer. pp. 628. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1923. Die Philosophic Der Islam. By Max Horten. pp. 385. Herausgegeben von Gustav Kaika Velegt von Ernst Reinhardt. Miinchen, 1924. Price Mark 4.50. Vita Prophetarum. Auctore Muhammed Ben Abdallah Al-Kisai ex Codicibus, qui in Monaco, Bonna Lugd, Batavia, Lipsia et Gothana asseryantur. Edidit Dr. Isaac Eisenberg. 2 cols. pp. 309. E. J. Brill, Lugduni-Batavorum. 1923. Black's Guide to Jerusalem. By E. A. Reynolds-Ball. Publishers A. & C. Black, London. 3d Edition. 5 shillings. Tales of Turkey. Major E. W. C. Sandes, D. S. O., M. C., 177 pp. John Murray, London, 1924. Price 5 shillings. Ben Kendim. A Record of Eastern Travel. By Lt.-Col. the Hon. Aubrey Herbert. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy. Illustrated with six maps. Pp. 380. Hutchinson & Co., London. Price 21s. La Question Turque. By Maurice Pernot. Pp. 322. Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1923. Anatolica. By Harry Charles Luke. Pp. 205. Macmillan & Company, London. Price 16/-. Storia e Religione Nell’ Oriente Semitico. di Giorgio Levi della Vida. Roma, 1024. viii. 155. Libreria di Scienze e Lettere. Verspreide Geschriften. van C. Snouck H'urgronje. Deel. IV. Geschriften betreffende den Islam in Nederlandsch-Indië. Eerste Reeks. Bonn. 1924. 415 pp. Anonymi Gesta Francorum et Aliorum Hierosolymitanorum. Edited by Beatrice A. Lees, M.A. Pp. 156. Oxford University Press. 1024. Price 3s. 6d. The Encyclopaedia of Islam. A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Mohammedan Peoples. Edited by M. Th. Houtsma, T. W. Arnold, R. Basset, and H. Bauer. Number 27 (Java-Kaikobad) and Number 28 (Kaikobad-Kamal Pashazade). Leyden: Late E. J. Brill, Ltd. London: Luzac & Co. 1924. Manuel Historique de la Question d'Orient (1793–1933). By Jacques Ancel. Pp. 330. Librairie Delagrave. Paris. 1923. Price: 7 fr. 50. Raimundo Lulio. Primer Misionero entre los Musulmanes por Samuel M. Zwemer. Traduccion de Alejandro Brachmann. Sociedad de Publicaciones Religiosas, Flor Alta, Madrid, Pp. 141. 1924.

Notes: These people are certainly interesting as they are perverts from Christianity in the days when Islam was dominant in that region. They speak the same language as their Orthodox associates, with whom they are connected by ties of blood relationship. They know that their fathers were Christians and that Islam is to them a foreign religion forced upon them by a conquering race, the language of which they do not understand nor care to understand. They are now wholly surrounded by people of their own race who are Christians and they are under a Christian Government. Their Moslem training, however, has given them a distaste for the spectacular form of worship which they see in the Orthodox churches and they are ready to examine the claims of a simpler form of worship.— Ed.]

Notes: Book reviewed in this article: Mankind at the Cross Roads. By Edward M. East, Charles Scribner Sons, New York. pp. 360. $3.50. Muhammadan Architecture in Egypt and Palestine. By Martin S. Briggs, F.R.I.B.A. The Oxford University Press, American Branch. Printed in Great Britain. Quarto, pp. xv 255–250 illustrations $28.00. The Arab at Home. By Paul W. Harrison, M.D. 345 pp. with ma s and illustrations. Price $3.50. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York 1923. Studien ueber die persischen Fremdwoerter im kiassischen Arabisch, von A. Siddiqi, M.A., Dr. phil. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1919. 118 pp. The Khilafet. By Mohammed Barakatullah (Maulavie). pp. 97. 2s, 6d. Luzac & Co. London. 1924. An Essay on Islam, with illustrations, by M. Venkata Ratnam. Evleryman's Press, Madras. 1922 pp. 208 Christianity and the Race Problem by J. H. Oldham, M.A. Student Christian Movement. 32 Russell Square, London W. C. I. pp. 380. 7/6 net. India and the Church. Being Impressions of the following Members of the Mission of Help: The Bishop of. Peterborough, The Dean of Manchester, The Revs. D. Jenks G. V. Smith, E. P. Swain, P. N. Wagget and Miss Higson with Contributions by The Archbishop of Canterbury and The Metropolitan of India. Published by the S. P. C. K., London. VII and 179 pp. Price 4s 6d. Annubuvvath Fil Islam, or Prophethood in Islam, by M. Ahmed Batcha B.A., published by The Dar-ul-Islam Office, Madras, 1923. 6g pp. Die Neue Turkei, Wirtschaftliche Zustaende und Aussichten. By Walter Lierau, published by E. S. Mittler & Sohn, Berlin. 1923. 60 pp. with map. Price I Mk. Indische Missionsgeschichte, von Julius Richter, Zweite Auflage, published by C. Bertelsmann at Gütersloh, 1924. 567 pp. Price, gold 9m, bound IIm. Non-Cooperation and Islam, by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-din Mahmud Ahmad, second successor of the Promised Messiah and leader of the Ahmadiyya Community, published by Secretary in-charge of mission work, Qadian, District Gurdaspur, (Panjab), pages 115. Islamic Mode of Worship, by Murza Bashir-ud-din Mahmud Ahmad, published by Qodian Press, Panjab. Claims and Teachings of Ahmad, the promised Messiah and Mahdi, from his own writings and sayings, (Fourth Edition) b Abdullah Alladin. Alladin Buildings, Oxford Street, Secunderabad, India. Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway. A Study in Imperialism. By Prof. E. M. Earle of Columbia University. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1923. Pp. 364. 10/6d. The Modern Mind and the Virgin Birth, by G. W. McPherson, pages 116. Yonkers Book Company, New York. Islamic Bookbindings, by F. Sarro. Kegan Paul. London. £5. 5s. Net. Egypt and the Army, by Lieut.-Colonel P. G. Elgood, C. M. G. 382 pages and reference maps. Oxford University Press, London: Milford 16/-net. Extracts from the Holy Koran with Sayings of the Holy Prophet Mahomad, (Third Edition), by Abdullah Allahdin, Secunderabad, India, pp. 195. Al-Ghazzali's Mishkat Al-Anwar (“The Niche for Lights”). A Translation with Introduction by W. H. T. Gairdner, B. A. Oxon; C. M. S. Missionary in Cairo; Director of the School for Oriental Studies, Cairo. London. Published by the Royal Asiatic Society. 74 Grosvenor Street, W. I. 1924. Asiatic Society Monographs, Vol. XIX. Layla and Majnun: An English Poem in the Persian Vein. By William Bashir Pickard. The Mosque, Woking, 1924. Pages 62. The World's Living Religions, by Robert Ernest Hume, Ph. D., 1924. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. VIII, 298. Price $1.75. Bengali-Arabic Grammar, by Moh. Abdu Sobhan. Dacca, 1921, pp. 106. Arabic-Bengali Primer, by Mousa Abdul Latif. Fourth edition 1919, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta. Beginner's Anglo-Arabic Translation, by Md. Obaidallah, Islamiya Library, Dacca. Second edition, 1924. Pp. 116. Anglo-Arabic Stories, by Osman Ghani. Fourth edition, Dacca. Rahman Press. Pp. 146. The Arabic Teacher, by Osman Ghani. Fourth edition, Dacca. Rahman Press. Pp. 136. Anglo-Arabic Grammar, by Osman Ghani. Rahman Press, Dacca. Arabi-Siksha, a beginners Bengali-Arabic textbook, by Raisuddin Ahmed. Calcutta. Pp. 65. Anglo-Arabic Translation and Retranslation, by Osman Ghani, Dacca. A Triglot Koran in Bengali. Published in Arabic, Urdu and Bengali script interlinear, by Haji Abdul Qayyum, 1330 A. H., II Wellesley Square, Calcutta, and sold at Rs. 10/8. Angora, Constantinople, Londres: Mustapha Kemal Pacha et la politique anglaise en Orient, par Mme. Berthe Georges-Gaulis. Un vol. in-4 couronne (19×24) (Librairie Armand Colin, 103, Boul. St. Michel, Paris), broché. 8 fr. Britain in India: Have We Benefited? By Khan Sahib Maulvi Idris Ahmad. Lucknow 1923. Fourth Edition, pp. 226. Price Rs 2/8/0. India in Ferment. By Claude H. Van Tyne. D. Appleton and Company. New York. 1023. pp. 252. La Renaissance du Maroc: 1913–1922. Dix Ans de Protectorat. Rabat, Paris, pp. 490. Price 7 Fr. 50. Race Problems in the New Africa. By the Rev. W. C. Willoughby, F. R. G. S. A study of the Relation of Bantu and Britons in Those Parts of Bantu, Africa, Which are Under British Control. Oxford University Press, American Branch, New York. 1923. pp. 294. Price $4.50 La Syrie à l'époque des Mamelouks d'après les Auteurs Arabes. Description géographique, économique et administrative précédée d'une Introduction sur l'organization gouvernementale par Gaudefroy-Demombynes. Paris. 1923. pp. cxix. 288. Geuthner. Der Koran Ausgewählt, Angeordnet Und Im Metrum Des Originals Übertragen. von Hubert Grimme. Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh: Paderborn. 1023. pp. 228. Price 2.85 gold marks. The Powers and the Turk: A Protest and a Warning. By Sir George Greenwood, (Some time M. P. for Peterborough). With a Foreword by Sir Edward Boyle, Bart. Palmer: London. 1923. pp. 76. Price 3/6 net. Uber den Gnomonschatten und die Schattentafeln der Arabischen Astronomie. Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Trigonometrie nach unediterten Arabischen Handschriften. By Karl Schoy. Orient Buchhandlung Heinz. Lafaire, Hannover, 1923. 29 pages. Unio mystica: Sehnsucht und Erfullung. Hafisische Lieder in Nachbildungen, by Georg Jacob. Orient Buchhandlung Heinz Lafaire, Hannover, 1922. 57 pages. Persische Turkische Mystik. By Max Meyerhof. Orient Buchhandlung Heinz Lafaire, Hannover. 40 pages. Histoire du Maghreb. By Ismael Hamet. Published Editions Leroux, 28 Rue Bonaparte, Paris, 1933. 502 pages. Price 25 francs. The Law of Apostasy in Islam. By Samuel M. Zwemer. Marshall Brothers, Ltd. London & New York. W. P. Blessing Company, Chicago, Ill. pp. 164. Price 6s.

Notes: Book reviewed in this article:“Midwifery.” By Ten Teachers.“Operative Gynæcology.” By Harry Sturgeon Crossen, M.D., F.A.C.S.“Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes.” By Halban and Leitz.“Biologic und Pathologie des Weibes.” By Halban and Leitz.