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PREFACE
PERHAPS mutual understanding and
sympathy are more difficult between
Christianity and Islam than between any
two of the world's living Faiths. On the
side of Islam is the too-little remembered
fact that the only Christianity of which she
is, so to speak, officially conscious,
is the
least true, the least pure ; while on the
Christian side, we tend to turn even from
such points of contact as exist between
ourselves and this latest of the Faiths
with
an undefined shrinking from the possibility
of sympathy
: the prophet repels us, the
religion repels us, the moral code repels
us. When we dis-
us, the history repels
cover that Islam claims to supersede
Christianity, we are filled with indignation
and horror. When we discover, as we do
at intervals, how dark the darkness of
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