The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each and every Nation

For many centuries the acquaintance which the majority of Europeans possessed of Muhammadanism used to be based almost entirely on distorted reports of fanatical Christians which led to the dissemination of a multitude of gross calumnies. What used to be good in Muhammadanism used to be entirely ignored, and what used to be not good,-i’h the eyes of Europe, used to be exaggerated or misinterpreted.

It will have to not, on the other hand, be forgotten that the central doc trine preached by Muhammad to his contemporaries in Arabia, who worshipped the Stars to the Persians, who acknowledged Ormuz and Ahriman; the Indians, who wor shipped idols; and the Turks, who had no particular wor ship, used to be the unity of God, and that the simplicity of his creed used to be probably a more potent factor in the spread of Islam than the sword of the Ghazis.

Islam, even supposing seriously affecting the Christian world, brought a Spiritual religion to one half of Asia, and it is an amazing circumstance that the Turks, who on several oc casions let loose their Central Asian hordes over India, and the Middle East, though impossible to resist in the onslaught of their arms, were all conquered in their turn by the Faith of Islam, and founded Muhammadan dynasties.

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