Islam (see also under _Challenge_, _Extent_, and _Spread_), at first a secret society, 40; slow initial progress, 40; early converts, 40, 41, 70; its doctrines not new, 43; a persecuted sect, 47, 55; House of Al Arkam, home of, 48; its religious observances, 68-70; state after Mohammed's death, 96; does not examine motives, 104, 111, 130; simplicity of, 104; failure to raise men, 104, 105, 114, 136; its fruits to-day, 105, 118-126; signs of awakening, 197; its propaganda, 163, 164; denies the Golden Age, 191, 192; internal decay, 188-90 J Jenghis Khan, 157, 205 Jerusalem, used as centre of Moslem worship, 69, 73; conquered by Moslems, 111; sacred places in Moslem hands, 140 JESUS, and Mohammed, 132, 136, 140, 160, 193 Jethro, and Arabia, 20 Jews, on the road to Syria, 8; in Medina, 71; Mohammed seeks alliance with, 71, 72; hostility of Islam to, 71; Mohammed breaks with, 73; subjugated, 87, 109 Jihâd, or Holy War, a Moslem duty, 70, 102 Job, and Arabia, 20 John, Saint, quoted, 191 K Kaaba, description of, 11; legendary history of, 12; destroyed and rebuilt, 27-9; secret of Mecca's greatness, 45; Mohammed removes idols from, 86; consecrated as centre of Islam, 86, 154 Kano, 171 Kashmir, Islam in, 99, 157 Khadîjah, Mohammed's employer, 22, 23; wooing of, 23-5; marriage to Mohammed, 21, 25, 205; cousin of Warakah, 25; comforts Mohammed, 36; tests the spirits, 37; death of, 58, 205 Khâlid, on death, 103 Kinana, the ancestors of the Koreish, 15 Korân quoted, 34, 35, 37, 38, 50, 51, 57, 128; how compiled, 42; delivered by Gabriel, 42, 93; fifty-third sura retracted, 57, 58; suras collected, 93; Moslem view of inspiration, 93; the law of the land, 108; teachers appointed, 108; influence in Arabia, 124; names of God in, 127, 128; Moslem commentator on, 128; its teaching on prayer, 130, 131 Koreish, the premier tribe of Arabia, 2; Hobal, their tribal god, 11; at war with Hawazin tribe, 14-16; relay the Black Stone, 27-9; infuriated by Mohammed's teaching, 44-6; persecutors of first Moslems, 55, 56; defeated at Badr, 80-4; besieged Medina, 84; re-instated as guardians of Kaaba, 86 Krapf, and his chain of Missions, 171 L Lagos, Islam reaches, 100, 163, 164 Lâ ilāha iliâ 'llâhu, 39 Lât and Uzza, 45, 57, 86 Legends, concerning Mohammed's youth, 10; Black Stone, 11; Hegira, 63 Livingstone, found by Stanley, 168; his influence on Missions, 152, 162, 205 Livingstonia, Church threatened in, 100, 171; Mission at, 170 M Magistrates appointed by Moslems, 108 Mahdi, fall of, 205 Mahmoud of Ghazni in India, 157, 205 Mahmoud, Sultan, his reforms, 120, 121 Mallams in Hausaland, 172, 173 Marriage of Mohammed, 21, 25, 205; after Khadîjah's death with Zainab, 88 Martel, Charles, repulses Saracens, 105, 205 Martyn, Henry, 175, 176, 182, 196, 205