The Gospel of Islam

Duncan Greenlees (1899-1966) was educated in England and spent much of his life in India. He was associated with Dr. Annie Besant in her educational work for India and served as Principal of one of the many theosophical high schools she founded. He participated in the Indian national struggle for freedom, was associated with Gandhi, and drafted the Indian National Education Policy. Later, withdrawing from all worldly and political activities, he made a study of the religious scriptures of the world. His detailed expositions of the underlying philosophy of the religions are published as the World Gospel Series.

THE Gospel of Islām is not a translation of the Glorious Qur'an. There are already several good translations of the sacred Book available, of which those by Maulana Muḥammed 'Ali and Marmaduke Pickthall are perhaps the best. This little book is meant only as an introduction or a guide-book to the Scripture itself, whose arrangement does not make quick reference easy for the ordinary reader. So I have chosen beauti ful, striking and typical passages from all parts of the Book and woven them into a logical sequence in short sections, each on a certain topic, and then completely translated afresh from the Arabic original. To help the reader to refer to the original context of each passage, the reference to chapter and verse (as in Pickthall's edition) is printed after it. In a few cases, parallel passages have been fused together, and this is clearly shown in the text itself.

**Contents and Sample Pages**