English Pages [] Year From one of the leading scholars of Islam in the last century comes this exploration of Christianity and Islam. Right fr. The pilgrimage to Mecca - the Hajj - is a major aspect of the Islamic religion, yet little has been written about its hi. Based on lectures delivered in Chichester Cathedral, this book mirrors typical nineteenth century English attitudes towa. Weddle David L.
There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic and political origins of Judaism, Christi. This distinctive comparison of Islamic and Christian mysticism focuses on the mystic journey in the two faith traditions.
Mw Sek. WeMEL aes ». SP Sa Saeed. RRS 3 SS. Pe i;. OSS : Bees Sas. During first fourteen years of this period, working as an archaeologist rather than as an orientalist, he studied at various times the classical archaeology of Greece, the medieval and modern history of Smyrna, the rise and development of the Orthodox monasteries of Mount Athos, the records of medieval geography and travel in the Near East, and the Genoese and Venetian coins and heraldry found in that area.
The fruits of these studies were several books and some fifty articles. In the spring of he visited Konia, the ancient Iconium. There he became interested in the interplay of Christianity and Islam within the Turkish empire, and from that time this subject and its derivatives occupied most of his attention. The result of his researches is this work, the first comprehensive study of Turkish folk-lore and its relations with Christianity.
The inequalities of the work, however, are so obvious that they call for an explanation of the circumstances in which it has been written and published. After his visit to Konia the author read and wrote steadily until the outbreak of the war.
