George Bernard Shaw and the Islamic Scholar

George Bernard Shaw and the Islamic Scholar by Imran Najor Hossain presents the text of a remarkable conversation between the celebrated European playwright and intellectual George Bernard Shaw and the renowned Islamic scholar and missionary Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqui. The two met in Mombasa, in British-occupied Kenya, on April 17, 1935, sixty-five years ago.

Shaw, a literary genius and rationalist, embodied the new godless Euro-world order that had wrapped itself in the mantle of 'humanism'. That order emerged after Europe transformed from Christendom into a 'one-eyed' secular society and gained power through scientific, technological, and industrial revolutions. By 1935, it had already imposed its godless rule upon the rest of mankind at the point of the sword and was making considerable progress in its new crusade of globalization to establish one global godless world.