Excerpt from The Religion of Islam
The Rev. F. A. Klein went out as a missionary of the Church Missionary Society in 1851, to Palestine; in 1882 he was appointed to Cairo and in 1898 retired from active service and resided in Germany. He then commenced the present work, for which by his thorough acquaintance with Arabic he was eminently fitted. He died in 1908 and the manuscript was sent to the Committee of the Church Missionary Society. A note on the "Development of the Science of Dogmatics" was left in such an unfinished state that it has not been published. Another note on the "Sects of Islam " is added to this book. It is not up to date, nor as full as it might be, but it is all Mr. Klein intended to say. The rest of the volume was fully completed and is now printed in exactly the form in which Mr. Klein wished it to be, for he placed a printed specimen page with his manuscript and the arrangement of type there found has been adopted.
As the cost of production in Europe of a work of this kind is high, the printing has been entrusted to the S. P. C. K. Press, Madras, and the result is a good specimen of the work done there at a comparatively small cost.
It is a disadvantage when a work of this kind cannot be edited by its author, but it is hoped that it will be found free from any serious errors.
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