# The New World of Islam Author: Stoddard, Lothrop, 1883-1950 Genre: Islam Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24107 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+New+World+of+Islam+Stoddard&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary By the eighteenth century the Moslem world had sunk to the lowest depth of its decrepitude. Nowhere were there any signs of healthy vigour, everywhere were stagnation and decay. Manners and morals were alike execrable. The last vestiges of Saracenic culture had vanished in a barbarous luxury of the few and an equally barbarous degradation of the multitude. Learning was virtually dead, the few universities which survived fallen into dreary decay and languishing in poverty and neglect. Government had become despotism tempered by anarchy and assassination. Here and there a major despot like the Sultan of Turkey or the Indian "Great Mogul" maintained some semblance of state authority, albeit... ## Chapters - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-world-of-islam-24107/chapters/2/index.md)