Turkey And the Turks An Account of the Lands the Peoples And the Institutions
Turkey And the Turks An Account of the Lands the Peoples And the Institutions
W S Will Seymour Monroe
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The creed of Mohammedanism is fivefold: (1) Confession of the unity of God; (2)^ prayers at stated times; (3) almsgiving; (4) observance of the fast of Eamazan, and (5) the festival of Mecca. There is no god but God (la Ilah ilia Allah) is the corner-stone of Islam monotheism. The doctrine of one per- sonal God, without any obscuring distinction of his manifold nature, appealed strongly to the simple-minded Arabs, Persians, and Turks. The Athanasian creed, it will be recalled, has 1 " Constanti...nople and Its Problems. " Chicago, 1901. 130 Turkey and the Turks always been a stumbling-block to the advance of Christianity among primitive people. The prayers are five in number at sunrise, noon, afternoon, sunset, and evening, with the addi- tional attendance at a prayer service at mid- day on Friday. Originally each prayer re- quired two prostrations of the body, but the number was increased to four. Almsgiving is intended to awaken a feeling of fellowship among the faithful; but it has grown to be a sort of tithe and has furnished the basis of the Moslem fiscal system.
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