Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... History of Protestant Missions in the Near East the muhammadan world and the eastern churches 1. The Muhammadan World only a part of the Muhammadan world can claim our attention in the following pages. We shall consider Turkey, Persia, Arabia, and Egypt. These are the lands in which Muhammadanism took its rise. They are at the same time the home of more or less important remnants of ancient Christian Churches. Yet, in order to appreciate the position which these nations occupy in relation to the Muhammandan peoples as a whole, we must cast at least a rapid glance over the entire region occupied by the followers of the Prophet. The Muhammadan world is a broad strip of territory, ex. tending from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the Dutch East Indies, and far into the interior of China. On the north the boundary line of this wide region passes from the Straits of Gibraltar through the Mediterranean to the Balkan Peninsula, runs northward to the Danube and stretches eastward across the steppes of Southern Russia and Siberia into China. In China the western provinces of Kan-su, Shen-si, Yun-nan and the new province of Hsin-kiang, have a large admixture of Muhammadans; the further east one travels, the smaller is the proportion of the Muhammadan population. In Africa, the Muhammadan countries in Western and Central Sudan extend into the interior of Guinea, in fact almost as far south as the Congo; to the east, in spite of the paramount influence of Muhammadan Egypt, they have not advanced south of the latitude of Fashoda, except along the coast. Along the east coast of Africa Arab immigrants have formed a new centre of Muhammadan influence, which has extended westward even beyond the great inland lakes. In Southern Asia we find that in a...
