TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC BY THE REV. J.M. RODWELL, M.A. WITH ANINTRODUCTION BY THE REV. G. MARGOLIOUTH, M.A.INTRODUCTIONTHE Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religiousbooks of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belongingto this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effectwhich it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but newphase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed anumber of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nationof heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religiousorganisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces withwhich Europe and the East have to reckon to-day...
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