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Abu Taleb, 112, 119, 123, 151,314
Abulfeda, 84

Abyssinia, 120, seq., 297
Achin, 35, 321

Acta Sanctorum, 234
Ad, Bani, 176

Adalbert, 282
Adhan, 29

Africa, Islam in, early spread of,
33 seq.; spreading now, 37 seq.,
40; intellectual benefits of, 41,
247; moral benefits of, 42 seq.,
125, 247; testimony of travel-
lers to, 44-51; slavery and slave
trade in, 51, 329, 332; probable
destiny of, 55 seq.; Christianity
in, 51, 53, 248 seq., 285
Africanus, Leo, 254
Aidan, 354
Aiznadin, battle of, 207
Akbah, the conqueror, 36
Akbar, 125, 349
Albigenses, 218, 219
Alexander, 89, 340
Alfred the Great, 234, 341
Alhambra, 126, 287
Ali, 99, 194, 207, 291
Ali, Bey, 168

BAC

Ali, Mohammed, 317

Allahabad Missionary Conference

54, 349, 354
Al-Kazar, 126, 287

Al-Lat and Al-Uzza, 101, 146

Alliance, Holy, 219

Almsgiving, 131, 164

America, Islam in, 35; slavery in,

245, 329
Aminah, III

Amru, 207, 217
Anatolia, 58, 309, 320

Animals, kindness of Turks to,
212; of Mohammed to, 256;
of Egyptians and Arabs to, 257;
funds devoted to, 253, 257;
future life of, 255
Anti-Christ, 79, 80

Apocryphal Gospels, 269, 271
Arabesques, 264

Arabs.

See Bedouins.

Arafat, Mount, 240

Architecture, Moorish, 125, 265,
287; Mogul, 125
Armageddon, 322

Arnold, Mr. Matthew, 66, 72
Ashanti, 220, 357, 358

Asia, Central, Islam in, 31; Rus-
sian advance into, 304, 322, 323
Asoka, 253

Asylums, lunatic, 256
Attila, 203, 210, 322
Augustine, St., 188
Aurungzebe, 125, 349
Avatar, 132

Ayishah, 130, 131, 151, 153, 167,
182

Azurairah, Chronicle of, 54

BABER, 125, 325, 349
Bâbyism, 318

Bacon, Lord, 65, 299

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87;

Bedouins, immobility of, 86,
passion for the desert,
heathenism, 88; never con-
quered, 89; tribal organisation,
90; hospitality and plunder,
91; chivalry, 92; poetry, 93;
revenge and cruelty, 94, 96 ;
treatment of women, 96; pro-
verbs, 97; religions, 98-102;
superstitions, 103

Bedr, battle of, 152, 207
Beiram, feast of, 264
Beit-Allah. See Kaaba.

Bench, people of, 131

Bentham, 256

Bernard, St., 188, 229

Bible compared with Koran, 19-
24; criticism of, 66 seq.
Bilal, 250
Bismillah, 303

Blyden, Rev. E., 49, 50, 51, 53,248
Bokhara, 31

Bokhari, Al, 342
Boniface, St., 341
Borak, 186

Bosman, William, 45
Brahma Samaj, 348, 349
Brahmanism, 59, 247, 291, 347,
349
Bridges, Dr. J., 296

Browne, traveller, in Africa, 45
Browne, Mr. I. de Maine, 120
Bruce, traveller, in Abyssinia, 297
Brunehaut, 311
Bryce, Mr. J., 340
Buddha, 5, 28, 200
Buddhism, 4, 253
Burckhardt, 88, 168, 315

Burton, Capt., 88, 93, 168,297,350
Bushreens, 47

CAIRO, 42, 214, 254, 304
Cairoan, 36

CLA

Cantacuzene, Emperor, John, 260
Capitulations, 211

Cappadocia, George of, 285
Carlyle, Mr. T., xxviii., 85, 226
Carmathians, 315

Caste, absence of, in Islam, 246;
among Hindus, 247; amongst
Christians, 248; effect on Ne-
groes, 248

Cavour, Count, 107

Cazenove, Dr., xviii., 95, 104, 258
Charity, St. Paul on, 20; Mo-
hammed's apologue on, 21
Charles Martel, 26
Charles V., 287

Charles the Great, 75,214, 218, 340
Chenghis Khan, 210, 307
China, Islam in, 29; early civili-
sation of, 296; Dr. J. Bridges
on, 296

Chosroes, 141, 149, 150, 341
Christ, His life and teaching, 6-8;

our imperfect knowledge of, 16;
nature of His miracles, 190, 191;
nature of His kingdom, 201;
attitude towards existing insti-
tutions, 233; spirit of, 241 ;
how He would have viewed
Mohammed, 259, 280, 282;
Mohammedan ideas of, 267;
Mohammed's ideas of, 269,
275; contrasted with Moham-
med, 292-294
Christianity, origin of, 5 seq.; in
Africa, 51, 53, 248, 285; pre-
eminent, but not exclusive
claims of, 163-170; how it may
spread, 70, 73; in Arabia, 99,
160; relation to Judaism, 69, 172;
spread by peaceful means, 217;
attitude to slavery, 236; en-
thusiasm of humanity, 253; rela-
tion to Islam, 259 seq.; rapid
degeneracy in the East, 277-279;
comprehensiveness of, 280, 288;
contrasted with Islam, 293
Christotokos, 275

Cicero, 68

Circassians, 250, 321

Circumcision, 196

Claverhouse, 318

COL

Collyridians, 272

272

INDEX.

Comparative religion, 1-3, 63-68
Conception, Immaculate,
Concubinage, 244, 245
Confucius, 13, 16, 200
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, 205
Constantine the Great, 234, 340
Constantinople, 27, 204, 211, 212
Cordova, 26, 76, 217, 287
Cotton, Bishop, 355
Covenanters, the, 318
Crawfurd, 33-35

Creed, Athanasian, 270
Crowther, Bishop, 40

Cruelties, of Christians, 300; of

Musalmans, 299, 301
Crusades, 209, 356-357
Curzon, R., 29, 195, 211
Cyril, St., 234, 285

DAIMBERT OF PISA, 359
Damascus, John of, 193

Damascus, siege of, 207, 208
Dante, 78, 226, 261

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El Khunsa, 96

363

GRE

El Mutanabi, 92, 93
Elijah, 123, 152

Eliot, George, 27, 140, 345
Elphinstone, Mount Stuart, 251,
265, 291
Epilepsy, 114, 182
Essenes, 171

FA-HIAN, 253

Fairs, annual, in Arabia, 93, 122
Farrar, Dr. F.W., 144, 241, 253
Fatalisin, not a dogma of Moham-
med, 191; nor of St. Paul, 192;
common in East, 299
Fatihah, 310

Fatrah, 117, 269

Female children, burial alive of,
95; prohibited, 125, 239
Ferishta, 265

Fetishism, 63; Arabian, 101,
102, 126
Fez, 36, 254

Firazees, 349

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KAR

in Hindustan, 59, 60, 247, 290,
291, 348, 349, 353, 355-
causes of success, 61; prepara-
tion for, 108, 110; essence of,
156 seq.; meaning of, 161;
relation to Judaism, 160, 161;
practical duties, 163; relation
to the miraculous, 185 seq.;
to fatalism, 191 seq.; to use of
sword, 198 seq.; to temporal
power, 204 seq.; to future life,
223 seq.; not sensual, 230, 232;
nature of its reforms, 234, 259;
relation to Christianity, 259,277;
not anti-Christian, 278, 282; re-
ligion of pastoral races, 283; in
Spain, 286, 287; in Sicily, 288;
in Persia, 289, 290; schisms in,
298; corruptions and abuses, 299,
304; potentiality of, 305; vitality,
308, 309; power of revival,
314, 321; can approximate to
Christianity, 337; lessons to
be learnt from Christians, 338
Itighe, 297

JAINS, 253

Jerusalem, 173, 207, 356, 357
Jessup, Dr., 97, 239, 240
Jews, Mohammed's efforts to gain,
173; later hostility, '137, 174, 176
Jihad, 316, 336
Joan of Arc, 119
Johnson, Rev. J., 39, 40, 355
Jolofs, 43

Judaism, its origin, 3; in Arabia,
98; exclusive spirit, 157-159,
174; relation to Christianity,
13 seq., 69, 172; relation to
Islam, 160, 161; slavery and
polygamy in, 236 seq., 245
Juggernaut, 324
Julian, Emperor, 252
Justinian, 105, 340

KAABA, 28, 102, 113, 122,

142, 166 seq.
Kadis, 302, 335
Kafirs, 47
Karakorum, 322

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Khoten, 31

Kiblah, 173, 317
Kirghis, 27, 304
Koraitza, Bani, 137 seq.
Koran, compared with Bible, 18-
21; translations of, 81, 84;
characteristics, 174; history,
176; editions, 177; poetry,
178, 180; theology, 180; mo-
rality, 181; on miracles, 185
seq.; on predestination, 192;
on the sword, 202; on the fu-
ture life, 225, 228; on tolera-
tion, 261; a miracle, 343, 344
Krapf, Dr., 54

Kuraish, the, 111, 118, 121-123,
146-148, 296
Kutb-ud-din, 251

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MIS

Lubbock, Sir J., 16

Luther, 78, 119, 120, 311, 317

MAGIANISM, IOI
Magyars, 282

Mahmud, the Ghaznevide, 251,
265, 359
Mahu, 79

Maimonides, 81
Malaterra, 76

Malay Peninsula, Islam in, 33
Malcolm, Sir John, 289
Mamelukes, 251

Mammetry, 77

Mandingoes, 37, 38, 45, 46, 350
Mansur, Elijah, 321, 322
Manu, laws of, 96

Maracci, the Abbé, 81

Marco Polo, 5, 29, 31, 33, 77
Maria, 135

Marshman, Mr., 307
Marosia, 311

Marriages, Mohammed's, 134–136,
145
Marsilles, 76
Marthan, 99

Martyn, Rev. Henry, 353
Maurice, Rev. F., xxviii., 61, 157,

209
Mawmet, 77

Max Müller, xxviii., xxix., 5, 8 seq.,
64, 313, 314

Mecca, 86, 111 seq., 142, 166
Medina, 25, 98, 124, 151, 198
Milman, Dean, xxviii., 25, 170, 205
Miracles, at Mohammed's birth,

III; attributed to the Church
Fathers, 188; Mohammed's
attitude towards, 25, 185, 187;
Christ's attitude towards, 191;
the Koran a miracle, 343
Miraj, 22, 186

Mir Aulad Ali, 136, 144, 243
Miscreant, 77

Mishkat-ul Masabih, xvii., 21,153,
168, 215, 315

Missionaries, Musalman, in Afri-
ca, 38; St. Paul as a, 70, 71;
of the present and future, 71-73,
340, 341; mistakes of, 353-354
Missionary Intelligencer, 48, 332

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