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... Muslim invaders of India , came in by land from central Asia . The transit of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific ... Muslim military prowess kept the Westerners cautious and the Muslims self - complacent . The experience that did ...
... Muslim invaders of India , came in by land from central Asia . The transit of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific ... Muslim military prowess kept the Westerners cautious and the Muslims self - complacent . The experience that did ...
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... Muslim minorities - scattered abroad among non - Muslim majorities - who will never be able to gather all their members together into geographically compact blocks capable of forming so many sovereign independ- ent states . These ...
... Muslim minorities - scattered abroad among non - Muslim majorities - who will never be able to gather all their members together into geographically compact blocks capable of forming so many sovereign independ- ent states . These ...
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... Muslim and Christian variations on a common Graeco - Judaic way of life fade almost out of view . They look quite insignificant by comparison with the characteristics that are common to all of us Muslim and Christian members of our ...
... Muslim and Christian variations on a common Graeco - Judaic way of life fade almost out of view . They look quite insignificant by comparison with the characteristics that are common to all of us Muslim and Christian members of our ...
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CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL Acknowledgments | 9 |
Preface | 11 |
My View of History | 15 |
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