Ebook Contributions to the History of Islamic Civilization

Nearly fifty years have rolled away since this mono graph saw the light, but in spite of ceaseless activity in all branches of oriental learning it even now stands all but unrivalled. The reader will find here not merely the history of the origin and growth of the Islamic sects, but will also see sketched before him the social life of the early as well as of the later Muslims. He will be able to follow, step by Step. The changes which came over the sons of the desert.