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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the publication of many books promoting evangelical Christian missionary work in Muslim countries, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Far East. Islam in China, first published in 1910, was promulgated by the World Missionary Conference in order to help establish Christian missionary policy in China. Though the nature of missionary work has changed, and though world events have overtaken r...

For those familiar with present day Morocco, this volume, first published in 1911, allows a fascinating comparison with the people and places in that country over seventy years ago. The author, founder of the British Settlement at Cape Juby, spent many years in Morocco where he carefully studied the habits and customs of its people, travelling widely throughout the region. His book, though written with a missionary zeal common to the period, i...

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) Swiss by birth, travelled to London in 1806 with an introduction to Joseph Banks, leading member of the African Association. Burckhardt thereafter devoted himself to the language and customs of Arabic peoples in order to pass through Islamic countries then hostile to Christians. Indeed, so proficient he became in the vulgar Arabic, and in his knowledge of the Qu'ran, that he was not only accepted as a true ...

Tripoli, as the northern focus of three great caravan routes, was a natural gateway to the Sahara. The American traveller, Charles Wellington Furlong visited that 'most native of the barbary capitals' in 1904, before the advent of modern communications changed the centuries-old pace of life. His inquiring mind and fluent pen present the reader with a most colourful and absorbing account of this peculiarly individual North African city. More th...

This interesting book contains a series of lectures on comparative religion delivered by Duncan Black Macdonald before the University of Chicago in 1906. The author was at that time Professor of Semitic Languages at Hartford Theological Seminary, and had previously published other works on Islamic belief. The Religious Attitude and Life in Islam is a welcome departure from systematical theological studies of Islamic faith. In this work the aut...

No husband!" echoed the Mufti. "And did you cross the seas from England without a husband to take care of you?" "Even so."' In the autumn of 1859, Mabel Crawford of Through Algeria joins the ranks of Victorian spinsters of independent means who are claiming their right to travel aboard as 'unprotected ladies'. A spirited advocate of female liberation, she embarks on a strenuous journey from Algiers to Bona, enduring heat, storms, snow and appa...

In this informative volume, first published in 1833, the author brings together a wealth of fascinating detail on every aspect of life as it them was Nubia (now part of Sudan) and Abyssinia (Ethiopia). His information is drawn from the accounts of well-known explorers, such as James Bruce, who discovered the source of the Blue Nile, as well as previously unpublished material from travellers know personally to the author.Geographical and histor...

A book is more interesting in its subject, or more satisfactory in its execution, is seldom issued from the press. The country of which it treats, and the circumstances which it was produced, equal each other in singularity. So writes the translator of this work, first published in English in 1802, and here republished in facsimile, complete with maps and original engravings, in two volumes. Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825), French ill...

A collection of varied verse in which are enumerated the 'ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah' and appended to each, some illustrated legend, tradition, record or comment drawn from diverse oriental sources.

A French story is told of an Englishman and a Frenchman, who met one rainy night in an inn, and sat before the fire drying and warming themselves. After one or two attempts at conversation, the Frenchman gave it up. Presently the stooped politely forward. "I beg your pardon, sir, " he said: "some of the ash of your cigar has fallen on your knee." "Well, " said the Englishman, "don't see that it concerns you. Why, the tail of your coat has been...

After the fall of Khartum in January 1885, various attempts were from time to time made to effect the release of some of the European prisoners who had fallen into the Mahdi's hands during the early stages of the Sudan revolt. These attempts were for the most part attended with little result. The causes of their failure, and the eventual success in one instance, are fully described in the following personal narrative... So writes the autho...

A book more interesting in its subject, or more satisfactory in its execution, is seldom issued from the press. The country of which it treats, and the circumstances under which it was produced, equal each other in singularity. So writes the translator of Travels in Egypt, first published in English in 1802, and here republished in facsimile, complete with maps and original engravings, it two volumes. Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825), ...

Abu Mohammed Al-Qasim Ali, known as Al Hariri of Basra was an eleventh-century Arab merchant, grammarian and writer, who continued and developed a literary genre initiated by the Great Hamadhani. The works of Al Hariri are considered among the classics of Arabian literature, representing a formal literary style incorporating a series of stories in rhymed prose, woven round the characters of a narrator and his amusing companion who turns up in ...

This little-know work, first published in 1891 and here reproduced in facsimile, provides a first-hand account of the slave trade in British and German East Africa during the latter years of the nineteenth century. The author, a Christian missionary, tempers his descriptions of this shocking trade with an unusually sympathetic view of both the African slave and the Arab trader. Alongside this account runs a fascinating study of the region so...

Originally published in 1844, also in two volumes, The Historical Geography of Arabia is now an important document in the historical development of Christian theological study. With the rapid expansion of European interests in the Middle East during the nineteenth century, the Christian Church discovered a reawakened interest in the lands from which its religion had sprung. At the same time, closer contacts with the Muslim faith produced in ma...

It has been my endeavour in the following chapters to describe briefly the most interesting persons and events that are connected with the history of the Rulers of Zanzibar and their Dominions on the East Coast of Africa during the nineteenth century, and do give some account of this Island of the Southern East, its people and industries." So writes the author in his preface to this work, first published in 1905 and here reproduced in facsimil...

The French takeover of Algeria represented a triumph of order over anarchy, of reason over emotion. This is the controversial view put forward by the author of In the Desert: The Hinterland of Algiers, based on observations made during his travels through North Africa at the turn of the century. The Arab tribes, claims L. March Phillipps, lack the social coherence and the intellectual depth of the European, and the concept of form is alien t...

Originally published in 1844, also in two volumes, 'The Historical Geography of Arabia' is now an important document in the historical development of Christian theological study. With the rapid expansion of European interest in the Middle East during the nineteenth century, the Christian Church discovered a reawakened interest in the lands from which its religion had sprung. At the same time, closer contacts with the Muslim faith produced in m...

John Alfred Gray was a practising London doctor in 1888 when he was approached by Sir Salter Payne who had returned from Kabul on the orders of the Amir to procure an English surgeon. During intervals in his professional work at the Court, Gray recorded his daily experiences and events in the Afghanistan of the period. Much of his writing is compiled from the regular letters which he sent to his fiancée in England providing the work with a fre...