“Made in Germany” By Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje Professor of the Arabic Language in the University of Leiden, Holland; Councillor to the Dutch Ministry of the Colonies, etc., etc. With a Word of Introduction by Richard J. H. Gottheil Columbia University, N. Y. G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1915 Copyright, 1915 by G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS The Knickerbocker Press, New York...

THE proclamation of a “Holy War” by the Sheikh-ul-Islam at Constantinople has excited interest above and beyond its connection with the present war. It has raised the whole question of the validity and effectiveness of this measure as a political instrument in the hands of a modern Mohammedan government. Students of Islam have asked themselves of what use this weapon, taken from the arsenal of a theocratic form of sovereignty, could be in a state which is in process of conforming to the present-