Author: Thomas Arnold
Publisher: Goodword books
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 467
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187570229
Description
This magnum opus covers a subject which few have broached and gives an authoritative history of the expansion of Islam through peaceful preaching, and missionary activity. This work is a chronicle of fundamental significance.
The author has covered most of the countries where Muslims live -Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, China, Central Asia, Eastern Russia, the Balkans, Turkey, the whole of Africa, Spain and even faraway Poland. This book is a chronicle of fundamental importance and worth possessing.
Contents
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A missionary religion defined
CHAPTER II
Study of the life of Muhammad considered as a preacher of Islam
CHAPTER III
The spread of Islam among the Christian nations of Western Asia
CHAPTER IV
The spread of Islam among the Christian Nations of Africa
CHAPTER V
The spread of Islam of Islam among the Christians of Spain
CHAPTER VI
The spread of Islam among the Christian Nations in Europe under the Turks
CHAPTER VII
The Spread of Islam in Persia and Central Asia
CHAPTER VIII
The spread of Islam among the Mongols and Tatars
CHAPTER IX
The spread of Islam in India
CHAPTER X
The spread of Islam in China
CHAPTER XI
The Spread of Islam in Africa
CHAPTER XII
The spread of Islam in the Malay Archipelago
CHAPTER XIII
Conclusion
Appendix I : Letter of al-Hashimi inviting al-Kindi to embrace Islam
Appendix II : Controversial literature between Muslims and the followers of other faiths
Appendix III : Muslim missionary societies
Titles of works cited by Abbreviated References
Index