| Brief Description: | Being a Cyclopedia of the doctrines, rites, ceremonies and customs. Together with the technical and theological terms of the muhammadan religion With numerous illustrations.
The "Dictionary of Islam" has been compiled with very considerable study and labour, in the hope that it will be useful to many; - to the government official called to administer justice to Muslim peoples; to the Christian missionary engaged in controversy with Muslim scholars; to the Oriental traveller seeking hospitality amongst Muslim peoples; to the student of comparitive religion anxious to learn the true teachings of Islam; - to all indeed, who care to know waht are those leading principles of thought which move and guide on. |
