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Originally a set of lectures presented as part of the Hartford-Lamson Lectures for 1909, Duncan Macdonald later added more content and revised the lectures for young missionaries. The lectures cover a broad array of subjects, including Muslim theology and metaphysics, the attitude of Islam to the Scriptures and to the person of Christ, Muslim ideas on education, and more.

we have to consider Muslims as being very near to ourselves in point of theology. What is needed, therefore, is a power of fine discrimination, combined with sympathy and an appreciation of points of agreement. The missionary to them must emphatically be a large, all-round man of personality and, if possible, of mystical tendency. He must be able to realize that when Muslims accept Christianity they will have to make it over for themselves; they will have to construct their own theology; and it is
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