ABOUT THE BOOK
This book succeeds in stimulating an awareness of this responsibility in its readers and in bringing home to them its validity. In its style and treatment, however, it does not pander to mere sentiment or excite passions of dogmatism. The claims that the book makes are sustained by solid scholarship and objective research in a manner that appeals to both the mind and the heart. The enlightened and unprejudiced approach of the author is clearly revealed by the scrupulous care and deep concern for truth with which historical events and their sequences are recorded and environmental effects and ramifications analyzed. Decisions are left to the discernment of enlightened minds and to consciences that are sensitive to truth. Topics have been discussed, arranged and interfused in such a manner that no conclusion is ever forced on the reader.
ISLAM AND THE WORLD
About the book
This valuable book was originally written in Arabic and published in Cairo in I950 for the Academy of Research, Translation and Publication in Egypt. It VIlasan instant success with critics and the general public alike in Arabic-speaking countries. The book has also been translated into Persian and Turkish. Its Urdu version, from which this translation has been made, was produced in India in 1954 in response to persistent demand.
