Islam: A Challenge to Faith
Overview
The purpose of this book is to present Islam as a challenge to the faith and enterprise of the Christian church. “But if we are to reach that world with the Gospel of Christ we must first know of it and know it.”
Nicknamed the “Apostle to Islam,” for nearly 40 years Samuel M. Zwemer lived and worked in the Middle East, preaching the Gospel of Jesus and training hundreds of missionaries. Founder and editor of The Moslem World, Zwemer—familiar with the land, language, and people of Islam—provided a window into a growing religion and culture that few Westerners knew. Zwemer’s legacy as one of the finest Christian scholars of Islam is still recognized today.
In the Logos edition, all Scripture passages in Arabia: The Cradle of Islam are tagged and appear on mouse-over. What’s more, Scripture references are linked to the wealth of language resources in your Logos library. If you own the English and Arabic Qur’an, you can follow along with Zwemer in his analysis of Islamic doctrine and his studies comparing Islam to Christianity. This makes these texts more powerful and easier to access than ever before for scholarly work or personal Bible study.
- Examines the growth, faith, practices, and ethics of Islam
- Compares and contrasts Christianity and Islam
- Offers evangelism tools to reach people of Islamic faith
- The Origin and Sources of Islam
- Mohammad, the Prophet of Islam
- The Spread of Islam
- The Faith of Islam
- The Practice of Islam
- The Ethics of Islam
- Division, Disintegration, and Reform
- The Present Condition of the Moslem World
- Missions to Moslems
- Methods and Results
- The Problem and the Peril
- A Challenge to Faith
Dr. Zwemer has rendered very exceptional service to the cause of Christian missions by the preparation of a book upon this important subject which is so well adapted to use in mission study circles, and throughout the Church. Authoritative information on the Mohammedan problem, in such a concise and available form, backed by thorough scholarship and evangelical discernment, is truly a great boon.
—James S. Dennis
It is a superbly effective presentation of a subject of tremendous present interest to the Christian world.
—Arthur J. Brown
Dr. Zwemer by his long experience in Arabia and exhaustive studies on the Moslem problem has earned the right to speak as one who knows.
Islam is a large subject. Whole libraries are given to it. It takes a master of the subject to bring into one compact volume an accurate account of the origin, the founder, the extension, the doctrines, the ethics, the decay, the spiritual needs of so great a movement as Mohammedanism, and—best of all—to do it without losing the unity and power of a great missionary purpose in the writing of the book.
—Charles R. Watson
This book by Dr. Zwemer, an experienced missionary to Mohammedans, is a thoroughly workmanlike presentation of its subject, and, as a study in the world-wide activities of Christianity and Mohammedanism in their relation to each other, it stands unrivalled.
—The London Quarterly Review
This is a powerful plea for missions to Mohammedans and it will take its place with the best or our abundant and admirable missionary literature. By heredity, by training, by long observation and experience in the home and stronghold of Islam, by intensity of conviction, by intelligence and strength of faith, the writer may, without exaggeration, be pronounced uniquely qualified for his great work.
—The Princeton Theological Review
- Title: Islam: A Challenge to Faith
- Author: Samuel M. Zwemer
- Publisher: Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions
- Publication Date: 1909
- Pages: 295