Pilgrimage, Arabian custom, 4, 6, 12, 45, 85; instituted by Mohammed,
70, 193
Plassey, battle of, 205
Pledge of Acaba, 61, 62
'Pledge of Women, ' the, 61
Political survey of Moslem World, 207
Population, Moslem, distribution of, 125, 206
Prayer, Mohammed retires for, 34; to Uzza and Lât, 45; Mohammed's
prayer for Omar's conversion, 54; five stated times of, 69, 179; call
to, instituted, 69; call to, sounded from Kaaba, 86; for Mohammed, a
Moslem duty, 92; Mohammed's teaching on, 130, 131, 138; of Raymund
Lull, 148
Prisoners, treatment by Mohammed, 82, 83
R
Ramadân, Mohammedan retires for, 34; a Moslem fast, 70, 108
Raymund Lull, his life-work, 142-47, 205; quoted, 143, 144, 148; his
death, 146; his motto, 147; secret of his life, 196
Reform Movement, of Sultan Mahmoud, a farce, 120, 121; in Turkey
to-day, in Persia to-day, 205
Rejeb, truce of, broken, 76-8
'Revelations' of Mohammed, 35, 41, 205
Revolution, Turkey's bloodless, 205
S
Sakîneh a Persian Christian, 182, 183
Saracens in Spain, 110
Saudah, married by Mohammed, 59; established at Medina, 68
Shah Jehan, in India, 157
Sheba, Queen of, 20
Shiahs, Moslem sects in Persia, 122
Siberia, 159
Sierra Leone, Islam reaches, 100
Soudan, Moslems in, 99, 205
South Africa, threatened by Islam, 100, 171
Spain, Moslems in, 99, 112, 140, 205; marks of Moslem influence in,
112; end of Moslem rule, 205
Speer, Robert E., on Persia, 122-3
Spread of Islam, in 7th century, 99, 111, 205; in 11th century, 99,
205; in 18th and 19th centuries, 99, 205; to-day, 100, 162; in South
and West Africa, 100, 162, 171; in Nigeria, 162
Stanley, finds Livingstone, 168; letter to _Daily Telegraph_, 169, 170
Sultan Mahmoud, his so-called reforms, 120, 121
'Sword of God, ' 101
Syria, visited by Mohammed, 7; conquered by Moslems, 87, 99, 205
Syrian Church, preaching in Arabia, 8; degradation of, 8, 9; deserted
by whole tribes, 109; Jerusalem and Antioch conquered, 109, 111;
Damascus, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Olivet, now Moslem, 160, 161
T
Taif, Mohammed's expedition to, 59; subdued, 87
Teachings of Mohammed, his master-truth, 38, 44; his creed, 39, 67;
not new, 43; described by his followers in Abyssinia, 56; sometimes
retracted, 57, 58, 89; as shown by the 'Pledge of Women, ' 61; on
religious observances, 68-71; caravan raids sanctioned, 74-8; loses
its earnestness, 88; its scope, 88, 89, 93, 94; God is great, 127;
God is not love, 127-9; Allah is Will, 128; on man, 129-31; on
prayer, 130, 131; on woman, 131-3; on Paradise, 133, 134; compared
with the teaching of Christ, 132, 136-40
Thompson, Joseph, on Morocco, 124
Timur (or Timerlane) in India, 157, 205
Tours, battle of, 105, 205
Truce of Rejeb, broken, 76-8
Tugwell, Bishop, in West Africa, 171, 205
Turkestan, a Moslem stronghold, 99, 158
Turkish Empire, misrule of, 120; a Moslem power, 120, 159, 160;
character of its capital, 121
Tûr, Mount, Mohammed concealed in, 63
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