The Cairo Debate — Page iii
FOREWORD. I had the privilege and honour of working as a missionary of Islam in Arab countries from 1931 to 1936. The foremost duty of the Ahmadiyya. Muslim Missionaries in the Arab Lands has been both to defend Islam against the onslaughts of. Christian missionaries and to regenerate the true spirit of Islam among the Muslims. . So long I was there, I put up a stubborn resistence to the activities of Christian missionaries in Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. I retorted the allegations of the Christians by means of speeches and pamphlets and started a monthly magazine "Al-Bushra" in Arabic which, by the grace of God, has been regularly published since from Israel (Palestine). . The permanent Headquarters of the Ahmadiyya. Mission were at Jabalul Karmal; Haifa; from where. I had been going round the other Arab countries on my preaching tours. In 1933 I was in Egypt; and it was there that a religious debate was held at Cairo; a detailed account of which is before the readers. . I first published it in the Arabic Magazine mentioned above%;B with an open challenge to all the Christian missionaries; but none of them in the Arab countries took up the challenge. In the