حركة التبشير في بلاد الإسلام

حركة التبشير في بلاد الإسلام

Arslan's chapter on the missionary writer Samuel Zwemer reports the Christian missionary movement in Muslim lands as he reads it in Zwemer's book. He says a missionary conference in Cairo in 1906 brought together missionaries from dozens of societies in Europe and America, and that Zwemer saw the weakening of Muslim states after the First World War as an opening. Arslan reports the figures Zwemer gave for conversion in Africa and Asia, and notes that the societies had less success in the Arab lands than in India and Java. He replies that Muslims believe in the Gospel and the mission of Jesus, and that if the aim is to reach the unbelieving, the mission should go to pagans first. This describes what Arslan reports of the movement. The judgement about the intentions of its members is Arslan's, not the museum's.