Excerpt from The Rebuke of Islam IF this book cannot claim to be the result of any great originality of research, or depth and extent of reading, it may at least claim to be the fruit of ten years spent in the East in one of the great centres of Islam, and of some Sincere hard thinking, which has been unsparingly given both to the object itself, as studied in experience, and to the reading with which that ex perience has been supplemented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.