The New World of Islam [With ATOC]

by Lothrop Stoddard, A.M., Ph.D.

Overview

This eBook includes a lot of active footnotes and a map.

PREFACE

The entire world of Islam is to-day in profound ferment. From Morocco to China and from Turkestan to the Congo, the 250,000,000 followers of the Prophet Mohammed are stirring to new ideas, new impulses, new aspirations. A gigantic transformation is taking place whose results must affect all mankind.

This transformation was greatly stimulated by the late war. But it began long before. More than a hundred years ago the seeds were sown, and ever since then it has been evolving; at first slowly and obscurely; later more rapidly and perceptibly; until to-day, under the stimulus of Armageddon, it has burst into sudden and startling bloom.

The story of that strange and dramatic evolution I have endeavoured to tell in the following pages. Considering in turn its various aspects—religious, cultural, political, economic, social—I have tried to portray their genesis and development, to analyse their character, and to appraise their potency. While making due allowance for local differentiations, the intimate correlation and underlying unity of the various movements have ever been kept in view.

Although the book deals primarily with the Moslem world, it necessarily includes the non-Moslem Hindu elements of India. The field covered is thus virtually the entire Near and Middle East. The Far East has not been directly considered, but parallel developments there have been noted and should always be kept in mind.

Lothrop Stoddard.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE OLD ISLAMIC WORLD
I. THE MOHAMMEDAN REVIVAL
II. PAN-ISLAMISM
III. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WEST
IV. POLITICAL CHANGE
V. NATIONALISM
VI. NATIONALISM IN INDIA
VII. ECONOMIC CHANGE
VIII. SOCIAL CHANGE
IX. SOCIAL UNREST AND BOLSHEVISM
CONCLUSION

MAP - THE WORLD OF ISLAM

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013492080
Publisher:	Ladislav Deczi
Publication date:	11/18/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	605
File size:	522 KB

About the Author

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883 – May 1, 1950) was an American historian, journalist, racial anthropologist, eugenicist, political theorist and anti-immigration advocate who wrote a number of books which are cited by historians as prominent examples of early 20th-century scientific racism.