A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
Missionary work and its role in the endeavor to remove Islam from the reality of Muslims.
In truth, it is proselytization rather than missionary work, for its goal is to bring people into Christianity.
If it fails in that, its primary concern becomes driving Muslims out of their religion, even if they do not enter the religion of the Christians.
Missionary work and Orientalism share the same underlying objectives.
Their methods overlap in order to achieve these goals.
However, the primary field of Orientalism is culture and thought.
Whereas missionaries focus their efforts on social and educational aspects.
It comes to mind that missionary work is about bringing people into the Christian faith.
And preaching to them the salvation from sins and entry into the kingdom of Allah, Paradise.
It is responsive to that.
But what is more important to missionaries in the Islamic world is driving Muslims out of their religion.
As Reverend Zwemer clarified at the Jerusalem Missionary Conference.
Where he said:
A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.