Childhood in the Moslem world - Samuel Marinus Zwemer
MOHAMMED was, without a doubt, one of the greatest religious leaders that the world has ever seen. He was a genius and a poet, a reformer and a great warrior. But Mohammed could never have said, * Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven. ' *
His book, his life, and his ideals are not those of Him who placed a little child in the middle and gave the world of childhood an eternal inheritance of blessedness by His own Incarnation. The present wide and increasing interest in child welfare is due to Christianity, and makes the presentation of the facts here given in regard to Moslem childhood, timely
When the whole world has become one neighbourhood, no individual or race can live to itself. This is not a book for children but about children. It could not be a book for them if it dealt faithfully and fearlessly with the real conditions as observed by eyewitnesses in many lands.
Every paragraph could have been corroborated by references to authorities and the use of footnotes, but these have been omitted in order not to litter the pages of the text or weary the reader's patience. A list of correspondents and a bibliography are given at the end of the volume. To all these missionary workers and writers I owe hearty thanks. The illustrations given are in- tended to set forth vividly the wide extent, the environment, the physical, intellectual and social conditions of Moslem childhood, in order that what we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears, may enter the heart of the reader
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