Aspects of Islam
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Originally a set of lectures presented as part of the Hartford-Lamson Lectures for 1909, Duncan Macdonald later added more content and revised the lectures for young missionaries. The lectures cover a broad array of subjects, including Muslim theology and metaphysics, the attitude of Islam to the Scriptures and to the person of Christ, Muslim ideas on education, and more.
Top Highlights
“Muslim theology thoroughly. He must have studied the books of the Muslim theologians themselves. Simply to read the Qur’ān is not sufficient. That might give him the Islām of Muhammad. It would not give him the Islām of today.” (Page 7)
“The missionary to them must emphatically be a large, all-round man of personality and, if possible, of mystical tendency” (Page 2)
“it is not best to attack Muhammadanism directly, but to let the new ideas eat away its foundations” (Page 13)
“or be surprised at any deviations which they may develop.” (Page 2)
“life, the attitudes of Muslims, their governing ideas.” (Page 7)