CONTENTS.

ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 1.

MOHAMMED AND HIS CREED.

i. THE FORERUNNERS OF MOHAMMED, p. 5—16.

Islam the type of faith adapted to the Arab mind. The mystery

of the Incarnation. General denial of the Divine Sonship of Christ

in the Apostolic age. Cerinthus and his heresy. The heresy of the

Ebionites. Who where the Antichrists in the days of St. John.

The Samosatenians. The Arian heresy. Islam absorbed and sup-

planted all the Christian heresies which previously denied the God-

head of the Redeemer.

ii.

THE LAND OF ITS BIRTH, p. 16-45.

Name and character of the land of its birth. The inhabitants of
Arabia. Ishmaelite descent of the Arabs. The character of the
Arabs predicted. The wild ass or the Dsigetai. Ishmaelites and
Israelites: the only two nationalities surviving of ancient days.
The Patriarchal faith in Arabia. Admixture of idolatry. The
Kaaba at Mecca, the ancient Pagan sanctuary. Composite nature
of Islam.

iii. THE AGE, AND CHARACTER OF MOHAMMED, p. 54-99.

Political aspect of the age in which Mohammed was born. His

age in a religious point of view. State of Judaism in Arabia. De-
plorable state of Christianity in Arabia: deification of the Virgin
Mary. Arabia at that time a reputed place of refuge for persecuted
heresies. Distraction of the Arabs amidst Christian heresy, Chris-
tian orthodoxy, Judaism and idolatry. Honest minds groaning for
light. The tribe of Mohammed. His family. His fits in child-
hood. His private life. Career as a prophet. Struggles and bat-
tles. The poisoned lamb of the Jewess. Mohammed's last moments.
His appearance and habits. His character. Commenced his career
in honest sincerity. Degenerates.

iv. HISTORY AND DOGMAS OF THE KORAN, p. 99-142.

Name of El Koran. Versions of the Koran. Revoked passages.

Original collection. Prevailing confusion. Real order of the Suras.

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The alleged divine character of the Koran. The Unity of the God-
head. Attributes of holiness; omnipotence; mercy; righteousness,
Authropology of the Koran; creation of man; immortality of the
soul; fall of man. Doctrine of Angels. Concerning the devil and
genii. Resurrection and judgment. Ceremonial injunctions: prayer
and fasting. Alms and pilgrimage. Sacrifices and circumcision.

V.

WHAT MOHAMMED BORROWED FROM JUDAISM, p. 142—179.
More acquainted with the Jewish traditions than with the Old
Testament. Mohammed's interest to borrow. Plagiarism from
Judaism. Hebrew names and terms. Hebrew ideas borrowed from
the Talmud. Doctrines borrowed. Talmudic demonology. Moral
precepts. Historical incidents: patriarchs before the flood and
Rabbinical fables. Noah; Hud or Eber; Abraham; Isaac; Ishmael;
Jacob; Joseph. Moses a leading figure. Fables. The golden calf
lowing or roaring. Korah's riches. Aaron. David and Solomon.
Queen of Sheba and Talmudic legends. Elijah; "Jonah the man
of the fish." Job and Ezra.

vi.
WHAT HE BORROWED FROM CHRISTIANITY, p. 179–218.
More at home in the apocryphal traditions than in canonical Scrip-
tures. The childhood of Jesus. Apocryphal Gospels. Parents
of the Virgin Mary. Joseph never named. The birth of Christ.
His childhood. The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy. Miracles of
Christ. The Ministry of Christ. Denial of the crucifixion. Titianus.
Christ's Ascension. Supposed Tritheism of the Christians. The
Virgin Mary said to be no goddess. Divinity of Christ denied.
Titles given to Jesus in the Koran. The Gospel allowed to come
from God. The Gospel of St. Barnabas alleged to have prophesied of
Mohammed. Double opinion of Christianity set forth in the Koran :
one assuming a perfectly peaceful, the other a hostile relation to
Christianity. Importance of disabusing the mind of Moslems.

vii. SPREAD AND SUCCESS OF ISLAM, p. 218-253.

Spread over the whole of Arabia in twelve years. Syria and
Palestine. Jerusalem capitulates to Omar. Egypt and North Africa:
Alexandria; embassy from Cyrenaica. Irak subdued. Persia. The
Omayades. Islam introduced into Syria. The entrance of Tarik
into Spain. Reverses in Gaul by Charles Martel. Spread in China
and India. Mongols and Tartars found the Ottoman empire. Bajesid:
project to feed his horses at the high altar of St. Peter's at Rome.

Peaceful spread of Islam by Missionary efforts in the interior of
Africa. Causes of success and permanence enumerated.

viii.

CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OF ISLAM, p. 253-315.

Social and
Facility of

Flaws in the legislature of Islam. Oaths wantonly made and
broken. Vain oaths and perjury. Injurious effects of the Sonna.
Warlike and cruel fanaticism. Lust of persecution.
domestic sores. Polygamy, its prejudicial effects.
Divorce. Slavery and Dulocracy. A hint to the Statesmen of the
present day. Form of Government. Compulsion and bloodshed.
Islam Predestination, its effects. Sects and heresies of Islam briefly
reviewed. Mystical Sufiism in Persia. Effects of Moslem sectari-
anism. Effects upon literature, commerce, arts and sciences.
Decay, depopulation, devastation and demoralisation.

PART II.

CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM CONTRASTED.

INTRODUCTION, p. 316–321.

i. INTEGRITY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, p. 321-355.

Names, division and number of the books of the Old Testament.
Collection of the books. Preservation by the Christians. Christian
catalogues. Origin of various Readings. No wilful corruption
on record. Wilful corruption impossible. Internal evidence.
Historical evidence. Versions: Chaldee, Septuagint, Peshito,
Hexapla, Itala, Vulgata. Mysterious absence of Arabic versions.
Early Arabic versions destroyed. Their early existence proved.

ii. THE INTEGRITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, p. 355-397.

The New Testament Scriptures known to the Apostolic Fathers.

Known to the Early Fathers of the Church. Quoted by enemies

and heretics. Catalogues of canonical books. Origin of various

readings. Collection and preservation. Instance of wilful corrup-

tion and how dealt with by the Church. Proved by ancient

Manuscripts. Ancient versions. The Peshito; two other Syrian

versions; Armenian and Egyptian translations. Latin versions.

British versions in the days of Bede. Corruptions morally im-

possible. Admitted by Moslems.

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iii.
THE BIBLE AND THE KORAN, p. 397-435.

Symptoms of imposture in the one case. Historical feature of
the Old Testament shown in detail. Admissions of the Koran.
Hint from the Hebrew Scriptures being read from right to left.
Organic connection of the Bible acknowledged in the Koran. The
Bible a standing miracle of God's power and wisdom. Is the Koran
the so-called miracle it is pretended to be? Internal connection of
the New Testament Scriptures, and the contradictory character
of the contents of the Koran. Absolute mistakes of the Koran which
admit of no explanation.

iv.

TRINITY AND UNITY, p. 436-447.

Symbolical anthropomorphisms. The moral attributes of God.

His metaphysical attributes. Distortion of the character of God in

the Koran. Allah a metaphysical deity. The belief in the Holy

Trinity. Caution to Christian Missionaries. The dogma of the ·

Holy Trinity above reason. The creeds of the Church do not express

the mystery, but seek to protect it against Unitarianism and Trithe-

ism. Matter of fact evidence that neither the Incarnation nor the

Trinity are irrational. Metaphysical Monotheism satisfies neither

faith nor reason.

v. CHRIST AND MOHAMMED, p. 447-470.

The Divine Sonship of Christ proved from the Koran. The mi-

racles which Mohammed is said by tradition to have performed. If

performed he is a lying prophet, since in the Koran he repeatedly

denies that he wrought any miracles. Are miracles in themselves a

true evidence? The miracles of our Lord. Misapplication of single

prophecies in the case of Mohammed. A full system of prophecies

fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Why the crucifixion and the atonement are

denied.

vi. CHRISTIAN MISSIONS TO THE MOSLEMS, p. 471.

What was done by our ancestors. Raymund Lully, the Martyr of
Moslem Missions, and the founder of the Arabic Professorships at
Salamanca, Bologna, Paris and Oxford. Other efforts of the Church
of Rome. Henry Martyn the modern Apostle to the Moslems.
The two Church Mission Societies. The Moslem Mission Society.
Syud Ahmed Khan the reformer of Islam and author of a Moslem
Commentary on the Holy Bible. Hopes and fears of the Church.
Hopeful signs and circumstances. Presentiments and prophesies.
Christ first appearing to Hagar. Special promises.