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The Islamic Review June 1939

1939

In short we should expect the purity of Plato and the elCiuence of Cicero." George Sale the well-known translator of the Holy Qur-in says: "The Koran is universally allowed to be written with the utmost elegance and purity of language in the dialect of the tribe of Koraish the most noble and polite of all the Arabians but with some mixture though very rarely of other dialects. [...] Not the most passionate grandeur not the most striking similes not the legends not the parables not the sweet spell of rhyme-full and the weaving of rhythmic melodies and all the poet's cunning craft— but the kernel of it all the doctrine the positive clear distinct doctripe. [...] By the foaming waters and by the grim darkness by the flaming Sun and setting stars by Mount Sinai and by Him who spanned the firmament by the human soul and the small voice by the Kaaba 224"ISLAM AND CIVILISATION and by the Book by the Moon and the dawn and the angels by the ten nights of dread mystery and by the day of Judgment. [...] According to them she had the poison of an asp the malice of the dragon; she was the organ of the devil the gate of the devil and the road of iniquity." The lot of woman was hardly better in England and the ignorance and superstition among women had become proverbial. [...] That the ideal of chivalry the cult of the gentlman the high conception of woman self-denying devtion and regard for the weaker sex originated from the contact with the Muslims becomes abundantly clear when we study the literary history of the lyrical poetry and the development of the modern languages in Western Europe.
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Frontmatter
i-iv K.N. Ahmad, M. Ahmad view
A Declaration
201-201 M. Davies view
In Memoriam Syed Mubarak Ali Hussain Tirmizey
202-205 unknown view
In Memoriam Sir Abdullah Archibald Hamilton
205-207 unknown view
The Muslims in England Mourn their Sad Losses
207-212 unknown view
Miscellaneous Remarks on Christian Missions
212-219 M. Ali view
Islam and Civilisation
220-226 Abdul Khan view
Muslim Influence on the Conception of Woman in Western Europe
227-236 Abdul Ghaffar view
Correspondence
237-239 unknown view
Woking Muslims’ Great Loss
240-240 unknown view
Supplement to the Islamic Review June 1939
1-4 unknown view

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