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It is still a very risky undertaking to write a history of the Islamic peoples and states from the beginnings down to the present, since the sources for such an account are far from having been made accessible, to say nothing of having been subjected to critical analysis. No individual can dare to solve this problem. But it appears desirable to offer to those interested in questions of world politics a bird's eye view of the fortunes of the believers in Islam, which today are interwoven more intimately than ever with world events in general, and can only be presented in a fragmentary form in works of reference and general world histories.
