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9. Research work is being carried on in other religions.

10. Arrangements have been made for preparing missionaries to carry on the work of the propagation of Islam in and outside India.

11. The free distribution of the English translation of the holy Koran and the life of the holy Prophet has been made by the thousands to libraries, ships, and to notable personages.

12. Miscellaneous literature in the form of tracts, amounting to seven million pages, has been published for the religious and social uplift of the Moslems.

13. Funds are being raised to start a Moslem mission in Spain, its aim being to win back to Islam that country "which has forsaken Christianity."

14. A branch of the society in Java is planning a mission to Holland. 1

ABDUL HAMID AND PAN-ISLAMISM
While Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in his obscure Indian village of Qadian dreamed his dreams, of spiritual conquest of the world in the latter part of the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries, the caliph of the Moslem world, Abdul Hamid, in his luxurious palace by the Bosporus, dreamed dreams also dreams of Pan-Islamic power that would oust the exploiting, imperialist European powers from India, Egypt and North Africa. He hoped to see the day when it would be possible to establish a great bloc of independent Moslem nations of whose spiritual and political life the Turkish caliph would be the head. To further these ends the caliph joined Germany and

1 Summarized from the Report of the Lahore Anjuman of the Ahmadiya, 1935.