Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c20.s3.4

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⁴⁴ Kirk needs to be quoted at length : "1. Islamic countries uniformly have high birth rates.
2. These are supported by distinctive Islamic attitudes and practices in family life rather than by political or religious doctrine.
3. The "normal" diffusion of birth control to and within Muslim countries on the European pattern has been inhibited by the cultural discontinuity between Muslim peoples and their neighbours.
4. The continuing high birth rates in Muslim countries, matched with increasing progress in reducing deaths, now lead to rapid population growth and its especially high visibility as a handicap to economic and social progress". Dudley Kirk "Factors Affecting Moslem Natality" in Olivia Schieffelin (Ed.) *Muslim Attitudes Towards Family Planning*, Demographic Division, The Population Council, Inc., (New York, 1967), p. 79.