Marshall Hodgson Has Written That a Visitor from Mars Who

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Essay

Marshall Hodgson has written that a visitor from Mars who arrived on earth during the sixteenth century would probably have concluded that the world was on the verge of becoming Muslim. What factors would have contributed to this perception?

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