Preface; Introduction: I. Studies at Home and at School: An Egotists Apology; Elementary Religious Instruction; An Alims Religious Studies; An Average Mulsims Studies; Third Infidel in a Family; Prejudice against English Culture and Education; The Oasis in British India; Education without a Teacher and Text-Book; Mosque as a Club; Home as a School; Home Circle; Our Mother; At Mothers Knee; Godless Education in School; Aligarhs raison dêtre Religious Instruction at Aligarh; Acquaintance with the Quran; Subsequent Results; I Attract My Big Brothers Notice; At Oxford; II. The Awakening: In Public Service; I Become a Journalist; The Comrade and Its Dreams; Outlook in 1911; Beginning of Troubles; Sad Thoughts and Their Sequel; Reaction to British Foreign Policy; Reaction to Turkish Politics; The Deendars and Nai Raushani; Views of the Reformed Eupopes Temporal Aggression; Religion with a Brief Creed and No Clergy; Impact of International Politics on Indian Muslims; The Book Our Mother Read; The Parable Likening a Good Word to a Good Tree; Expanded Horizon; The Pilgrims BrokerNew Style; III. My Troubles and the Remedy: The Press Act; The Press Act Again; Exit The Comrade; A Printer and Publishers Troubles; More Trouble; The Choice of the Turks; The Hamdard Suffers; Ill-Health and Internment; Qutub Sahib; Picnicking Pilgrims; Exile; End of Journalism; Internment Finance; Peaqce at Last; Our Friends; From Garhwal to Gondwana; IV. The Discovery: Reading the Quran Through; Revelation Piecemeal; The Spearhead of Islam; Our Daily Readings; Freshness of the Quran; V. The Secular Outlook in Europe: Renans Modern Interpretation of Christianity; Conflict between God and Caesar; H.G. Wells Conception of the Kingdom of God; The Hellenistic Graft Which Changed Christianity out of Recognition; VI.

The New Zeal: A Welcome Gift; Contact with Mohammad Iqbal; H.G. Wells; Injustice to the Turks; The Evil of Nationalism; Man Proposes, God Disposes; End of Internment at Chhindwara; Khilafat Delegation to Europe; An Unknown Visitor; Back to India: Home on Wheels; Arrest at Waltair and the Karachi Trial; Authorship; VII. Islam: Whence and Whither? The First Revelation; What is the Spirit?; Scholasticism in Islam; Science and Religion; The Art of Fabrication and Its Apologisers; No Theology by Committee; The Sunni-Shia Schism; Persian Nationalism; the Kharijis; The Age of Controversies; The Golden Age; Much Discussion, Little Action; Imam Ahmads Success and the Rise of the Jurists; The Four Schools of Law; The Age of Persecution; Imam Ahmads Martyrdom; Discussion Craze; Dealers in Dialectics; Sufism; Period of Decay and the Vitality of Islam; An Important Warning; The Quran: Every Mans Book; Last Worlds; Appendix: The Misunderstanding and Its Causes.