EVENING PRAYER.
'Islam was born in the desert.'

THE STORY OF ISLAM

BY

THEODORE R. W. LUNT

GENERAL SECRETARY, NATIONAL LAYMEN'S
MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
(FORMERLY EDUCATIONAL SECRETARY, CHURCH
MISSIONARY SOCIETY)

THIRD EDITION (REVISED)

LONDON
UNITED COUNCIL FOR MISSIONARY EDUCATION
CATHEDRAL HOUSE, 8 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.

1909. First Edition.
1911. Second Edition.
1916. Third Edition (Revised).

Dedicated
to the Public Schoolboys
of Great Britain, who
have a Big Part yet to play
in shaping the Future
Story of Islam

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AUTHOR'S PREFACE

TO THIRD EDITION

It has been strange indeed to revise thisbook in barracks, amid efforts to learnto fire big guns—possibly against theTurks. And yet this necessity which liesupon us Englishmen to-day only emphasizesafresh the importance of our trying tounderstand the real problem of Islam.

When the war is over, Islam will remain.Whatever state of disorganization it maybe in and whatever its centre, it will stilltower up before us gaunt and shadowed asone of the most difficult problems ofcivilization and as the great reproach ofthe Christian Church.

We can do nothing to help Moslems, orto solve their problem, unless we knowsomething of their story and have triedto understand the power and fascinationof their rugged simple creed.

Those of us who are called to fight—forhonourable necessity—have the lesser task{vi}though it be costly. The real opportunitywill lie with those who come after—withthose, in fact, who are at school to-day.Their task will be not to destroy but tobuild, to dream holy dreams of a greatWorld Kingdom of Love and Gentlenessand Truth and Purity and Honour, and toconsecrate their lives to the One fromWhom and through Whom alone thesethings can come.

THEO. R. W. LUNT.

R.F.A. MESS, BEDFORD BARRACKS,
    EDINBURGH, January 1916.

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CONTENTS

CHAP.

Author's Preface

I. 'Youth and its Schooling'

II. Early Manhood

III. The Prophet of Arabia

IV. Life in Mecca

V. The Unsheathing of the Sword...