Islam in modern history

"No religion has been able to inspire in its adherent a feeling of pride like the feeling that a Muslim experiences without affectation or artificiality, and pride in Arabic may sometimes mix with this feeling, so the Arab Muslim considers the etiquette of chivalry before Islam as an example of morals and customs, and the Arab shares in this pride even if he is not one of them. Muslims, so the Arab history before Islam and after Islam is concerned with original lineage, as did Jurji Zaidan, Philip, and other Christian Arab historians, but the Muslim's pride in his religion extends to Muslims regardless of nationality and language, and the fact that a person is a Muslim is a source of praise that you hear from all Muslims.
This paragraph by Canadian Orientalist Wilfred Canwell Smith summarizes his vision and outlook on the Islamic religion, to which this book is dedicated.
The author of this book is Mr. Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Montreal. He was Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and Head of the Department of Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal. He resided for a long time in the city of Lahore, Pakistan, and traveled throughout the Middle East and some Arab Islamic countries. It is non-Arab, in the continents of Asia and Africa, and is dominated by a leftist tendency that becomes clear through its materialistic interpretations of the phenomena that it studies and considers.