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 . 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
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 . 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. MAP SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MOSLEMS IN INDIA^ Asia, and of the world, is Mohammedan. The followingcountries in Asia are predominantly and some almostwholly Moslem: Arabia, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia,Turkestan, Bokhara, Khiva, Persia, Afghanistan, Balu- ^Census of India, 1901, Vol. I., 383. PRESENT CONDITION OF MOSLEM WORLD l6l chistan, Java, Sumatra, Celebes and the Southern islandsof the Philippine group. In Syria and Armenia the non-Moslem population outnumbers that of Islam. The chiefnumerical strength of the Mohammedan faith, hozvever,is in India, zvhich has a larger Moslem population than allAfrica and far more than the total populations of Arabia,Persia, Egypt and the Turkish Empire combined. Bythe last census the number of Moslems in India is 62,458,-077. In Bengal, including Assam, there are 27,076,643,and in the Punjaub, 12,183,345. In the Dutch East Indiesthere are nearly thirty million Moslems out of a total pop-ulation of thirty-six millions. The number of Moslems inChina
Size: 1556px × 1605px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishern, booksubjectislam
