ABSTRACT
The object of this and the three following essays in this series is to analyze the religious attitudes of Muslims, the sources from which they derive and the concepts which determine what they think in general about God, and how they view the relation between the unseen and the visible world. The ideas so disengaged may not and need not be exclusively Muslim—many or most of them are, indeed, paralleled in other faiths—but Muslim religious thought derives its distinctive character from their combination or formulation. Details of history and doctrine will not be included, except for such brief historical introductions and notes as are needed by way of explanation.
