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AMERICAN LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
SERIES OF 1914-1915
Mohammedanism
Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present
State
by
C. Snouck Hurgronje
Professor of the Arabic Language in the University of Leiden, Holland
1916
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The American Lectures on the History of Religions are delivered underthe auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History ofReligions. This Committee was organized in 1892, for the purpose ofinstituting "popular courses in the History of Religions, somewhat afterthe style of the Hibbert Lectures in England, to be delivered by the bestscholars of Europe and this country, in various cities, such as Baltimore,Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia."
The terms of association under which the Committee exists are as follows:
1.—The object of this Committee shall be to provide courses of lectures onthe history of religions, to be delivered in various cities.
2.—The Committee shall be composed of delegates from the institutionsagreeing to co-operate, with such additional members as may be chosen bythese delegates.
3.—These delegates—one from each institution, with the additional membersselected—shall constitute themselves a council under the name of the"American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions."
4.—The Committee shall elect out of its number a Chairman, a Secretary,and a Treasurer.
5.—All matters of local detail shall be left to the co-operatinginstitutions under whose auspices the lectures are to be delivered.
6.—A course of lectures on some religion, or phase of religion, froman historical point of view, or on a subject germane to the study ofreligions, shall be delivered annually, or at such intervals as may befound practicable, in the different cities represented by this Committee.
7.—The Committee (a) shall be charged with the selection of the lectures,(b) shall have charge of the funds, (c) shall assign the time for thelectures in each city, and perform such other functions as may benecessary.
8.—Polemical subjects, as well as polemics in the treatment of subjects,shall be positively excluded.
9.—The lectures shall be delivered in the various cities between themonths of September and June.
10.—The copyright of the lectures shall be the property of the Committee.
11.—The compensation of the lecturer shall be fixed in each case by theCommittee.
12.—The lecturer shall be paid in installments after each course, until heshall have received half of the entire compensation. Of the remaining half,one half shall be paid to him upon delivery of the manuscript, properlyprepared for the press, and the second half on the publication of thevolume, less a deduction for corrections made by the author in the proofs.
The Committee as now constituted is as follows: Prof. Crawford H. Toy,
Chairman, 7 Lowell St., Cambridge, Mass.; Rev. Dr. John P. Peters,
Treasurer, 227 W. 99th St., New York City; Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr.,
Secretary, 248 So. 23d St., Philadelphia, Pa.; President Francis Brown,
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