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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a reformed Juda-ism than it is a form of Christianity. It was essentially a new religion. The Koran claimed to be a new and perfect revelation of the will ofGod, and from the time of the Prophets death to this day no Moslem hasappealed to the ancient traditions of Arabia or to the Jewish or ChristianScriptures as the ground of his faith. The Koran and the traditions aresufficient and final. I believe that every orthodox Moslem regards Islamas a separate, distinct, and absolutely exclusive religion; and there isnothing to be gained by calling it a form of Christianity. But afterhaving set aside this unfounded statement, and fully acknowledged the inde-pendent origin of Islam, there is still a historical relationship between it andChristianity which demands our attention. The Prophet recognized the Christian and Jewish Scriptures as the Wordof God, although it cannot be proved that he had ever read them. They arementioned one hundred and thirty-one times in the Koran, but there is only
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