Islam, a challenge to faith; studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions . ountry, it is of a very low order, and inthe presence of a vigorous Christian propaganda it willnot finally add strength to Islam. Still the number ofMoslems is undoubtedly increasing rapidly. Islam andChristianity between them are spoiling heathenism andwill probably divide the pagan peoples in less than But unless the Church awakes to the peril ofIslam she may once more be defeated in Africa. *Thespread of Islam in Af
Islam, a challenge to faith; studies on the Mohammedan religion and the needs and opportunities of the Mohammedan world from the standpoint of Christian missions . ountry, it is of a very low order, and inthe presence of a vigorous Christian propaganda it willnot finally add strength to Islam. Still the number ofMoslems is undoubtedly increasing rapidly. Islam andChristianity between them are spoiling heathenism andwill probably divide the pagan peoples in less than But unless the Church awakes to the peril ofIslam she may once more be defeated in Africa. *Thespread of Islam in Africa is one of the most striking phe-nomena of the nineteenth century and taken in connec-tion with the cultural revival of the Moslem world inAsia is the feature of the situation which is of the gravestimport. There are three currents of Mohammedanismwhich are spreading in Africa,—from the Upper Nile, ^The Mohammedan World of To-Day, , 47. PRESENT CONDITION OF MOSLEM WORLD 159 from Zanzibar into the Congo region, and lastly up theNiger basin. Christianity, which is only a feeble plant inthese regions, is likely to be overwhelmed altogether, just. UNOCCUPIED MISSION FIELDS IN AFRICA^(Dots represent mission stations) as the flourishing North African Church was over-whelmed by the Arabs at an earlier stage of ^This map was prepared by Professor Wilson S. Naylor, and appeared inThe Missionary Review of the Horid for March, 1906. ^Archibald R. Colquhoun, in article on Pan-Islam, North American Re-view, June, 1906, 916. i6o ISLAM : A CHALLENGE TO FAITH Islam in Asia and Europe.—Of the total population ofthe world there are about one hundred and sixty-ninemillion Moslems in Asia and about five million in speaking, one-seventh of the total population of
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