Besides the text of Dr. Lee's work, thus briefly reviewed, there. is a great
deal of valuable matter in the appendices; especially extracts from Aga Akbar's
tract2 on Mohammed's miracles, to which are added notes on the
prophecies of the Coran, and an important disquisition tracing Mohammed's
scriptural knowledge to Syria, and many of his stories to Ephrem the Syrian. We
should like to see this book in the hands of every missionary; in its present
shape, indeed, it is bulky, and in some parts tedious; but if the preface and
Mirza Ruza's tract were curtailed, the remainder might be printed in a cheap
form fit for general circulation.3 The portions which regard the
Shiea doctrines would not, however, be so generally applicable here as in
Persia; for, excepting in Oudh, the Indian believers as a rule belong to the
Sunni faith.