Writing just after the First World War, Stoddard surveys the political and religious ferment from Morocco to China: pan-Islamism, the Wahhabi revival, nationalism in Egypt, Turkey, Persia and India, and resistance to European rule. The author was also a leading American racialist, and his outlook frames the Muslim world as a threat to Western dominance.
A revealing document of how Western observers saw Islam in 1921, best read critically. Download the free EPUB.