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180 Iran, changes in, 83, 112, 113; marriage customs of, 93-96; Shiites predominant in, 58

Iraq, 58, 79, 128, 166-67

Isabella Thoburn College, 74

Islam, a Challenge to Faith, 37-38

Islam, articles of faith of, 45-57; as a potential power, 108-9; as a revealed religion, 43-44; challenges the world, 150-71; communism and, 126-27; creed of, 44-45; dervish orders of, 59-61; education in, 98-99, 122-23; fatalism in, 56-57; Holy War (Jihad) in, 109-10, 149, 155; idea of God in, 67- 68; marriage in, 93-97; missionaries of, 116-18; modernism in, 9; politics and religion in, 104-27; prohibition of alcohol by, 123-24; purification ritual in, 70-71; religious education of children in, 98-99, 122; religious endowments of, 124-25 ; religious intolerance of, 119-21; rewards and punishments in, 80-81; ritual of, 66-80; sects of, 57-61; secularism in, 156-57; sins condemned by, 81-82, 83-84; slavery under, 125-26; spread of, 35-37; "the perfect religion," 40-63; tithes and alms in, 77-78

Jesus Christ, 38, 39, 44, 51, 54, 137-39, 160, 169-71

Jinn, 47-49

Jordan, Dr. Samuel M., 164-65

Kaaha, holy shrine of pilgrimage, 17, 25, 31, 152

Kashmir, Friday in, 6; Moslems in, 3, 5

Koran, authority of, 42-43; basis of, 30; divine origin of, 52-53; Fatiha (opening chapter of), 72-73; idea of hell in, 55; inspiration of, 32; Mohammed's confession of sin in, 144; Old Testament stories in, 40; on jinn, 48-49; paradise described in, 54-55; phonograph records of, 7; subjects treated in, 50-51; typical verses from, 51-52

Laubach, Dr. Frank, 164

League of Nations, 128, 156

Marriage in Islam, 93-97

Mecca, Black Stone of, 18; idolatry in, 20, 28, 30, 34; Kaaba, holy shrine of, 17, 25, 31, 152; well of Zemzem in, 18, 21

Mecca and Beyond, 62

Medina, Hegira or flight to, 31; tomb of Mohammed in, 19, 21

Missions to Moslems, educational, 14041, 164-65; medical, 14142, 161-62

Mohammed, announces his religion, 23-24; death of, 35; early life of, 26-28; early preaching of, 30-33; "greatest of prophets," 37-39; Hegira or flight of, 31; Jews and, 34, 39; Khadijah, wife of, 27, 30, 33; prophet-king, the, 33-35; revelations from Allah to, 28-30; tribe of, 25

Mohammed Abduh, Sheikh, 49, 105-6

Moslem world, amusements in, 101-2; brotherhood in the, 114-15; celebration of festivals in the, 75-77, 99-101; challenge to Christianity of, 158-71; divorce in, 97-98; education in, 98-99, 122-23; fasting in, 75-76; population of, 148; under Christian influence, 74

Nizam of Hyderabad, 120

Pan-Islamism, 111-12, 154-57

Pennell, Dr. Theodore Leighton, 142