Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-05-02 | Page 7 | Mussulmans of the World

Mussulmans of the World. Turkish periodicals publish statistics statis-tics of the Mussulman population of the world, and, although it is difficult to follow absolutely the statistics of a country where records are so imperfectly im-perfectly kept, the approximate results re-sults are as follows: The Ottoman Empire contains 24,-000,000 24,-000,000 persons, of whom 6,000,000 live in Enrope and 18,000,000 in Asia. But of these not more than one-half profess pro-fess the faith of Mahomet. The Russian empire has quite a proportion of the followers of Mahomet, Ma-homet, numbering several millions. In India there are some 50,000,000 Mussulmans, Mus-sulmans, while Persia, Afghanistan, Arabia and other independent countries coun-tries in Asia have about 20,000.000 more. The Dutch colony of Java, with Borneo, the Philippines and other adjacent ad-jacent islands, contain several million mil-lion besides. All the northern and central part of Africa rests firm in the faith of the prophet. Harper's Weekly.