30 APRIL 1910, Page 17

THE MOHAMMEDAN PULPIT.

(To THE EDITOR Or Tar "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The new Islamic theology to which you refer in your article last week on the Modernist Mnssulman sermons recently preached in the Mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, is not a late development. It was inaugurated by Midhat Pasha, and has evidently bad supporters ever since among the Turkish ulema. May I mention that I deal at some length with this subject in an article entitled "Modernism in Islam " which appears in the current number of the Dublin