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 Rh great need of German help and support in order to accomplish its task, but then it will also constitute a far from contemptible ally. This will be especially true if the Caliph decrees the great holy war, the jihâd.

Here now Grothe finds himself quite at sea, as he does not know that for Mohammedans of the old stamp, who have not taken part in the intellectual movement of the Mohammedan East in the last few years, every war waged by Turkey is a jihâd. For such as these the question is not: "jihâd or secular war?" but "against whom has Turkey declared jihâd?" And then, supposing the answer is as Grothe imagines, i. e., jihâd "against all powers that have devoured Mohammedan countries and thus have robbed Islâm of its splendour," the question remains whether, as Grothe hopes and