Saints of Islam

This volume was published in 1908.From the book's Preface:The following pages are intended to give briefly some of themain features of the religious philosophy of Islam along with a brief account of some of the interesting events of the livesof three of its great Saints. A few of the sentiments ascribedto these saints have been rendered freely into English in orderto bring out the spirit of the thought clearly which a literal ren-dering too often is hardly able to convey, and these thoughtshave been compared to similar sentiments of other eminentOriental thinkers. I have selected the three lives from threedifferent periods in order to survey briefly the development of some of the political events and to a small extent the literary advancement effected by the Mohammedans in thecourse of these periods.As the interesting events of the lives of great persons greatin their moral character and greatness of mind, whether theybe of the Christian faith or of any other, are generally foundto b..