ISLÂM
RELIGIONS: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
ANIMISM.
By Edward Clodd, Author of The Story of Creation.
PANTHEISM.
By James Allanson Picton, Author of The Religion of the Universe.
THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA.
By Professor Giles, LL.D., Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE.
By Jane Harrison, Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, Author of Prolegomena to Study of Greek Religion.
ISLÂM.
By Ameer Ali Syed, M.A., C.I.E., late of H.M.’s High Court of Judicature in Bengal, Author of The Spirit of Islâm and The Ethics of Islâm.
MAGIC AND FETISHISM.
By Dr. A. C. Haddon, F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology at Cambridge University.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT.
By Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie, F.R.S.
THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA.
By Theophilus G. Pinches, late of the British Museum.
EARLY BUDDHISM.
By Professor Rhys Davids, LL.D., late Secretary of The Royal Asiatic Society.
HINDUISM.
By Dr. L. D. Barnett, of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS., British Museum.
SCANDINAVIAN RELIGION.
By William A. Craigie, Joint Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
CELTIC RELIGION.
By Professor Anwyl, Professor of Welsh at University College, Aberystwyth.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
By Charles Squire, Author of The Mythology of the British Islands.
JUDAISM.
By Israel Abrahams, Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in Cambridge University, Author of Jewish Life in the Middle Ages.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ROME.
By Cyril Bailey, M.A.
SHINTO, THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF JAPAN.
By W. G. Aston, C.M.G.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT MEXICO AND PERU.
By Lewis Spence, M.A.
EARLY CHRISTIANITY.
By S. B. Slack, Professor at M’Gill University.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGIN AND NATURE OF RELIGION.
By Professor J. H. Leuba.
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT PALESTINE.
By Stanley A. Cook.
ISLÂM
By
AMEER ALI, SYED, M.A., C.I.E.
LATE A JUDGE OF H.M.’S HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE IN BENGAL,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE SPIRIT OF ISLÂM,’ ‘THE ETHICS OF ISLÂM,’
‘A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SARACENS,’ ‘MAHOMMEDAN LAW,’
(2 VOLS.), ‘STUDENT’S HANDBOOK OF MAHOMMEDAN LAW,’
JOINT AUTHOR OF ‘THE LAW OF EVIDENCE APPLICABLE
TO BRITISH INDIA,’ AND ‘A COMMENTARY ON
THE BENGAL TENANCY ACT’
LONDON
CONSTABLE & COMPANY Ltd
10 ORANGE STREET LEICESTER SQUARE
1909
Published 1906
Reprinted 1909