كتاب The Preaching Of Islam

e first edition of this book having been out of print for several years and frequent inquiries having been made for copies, this new edition has been prepared and an effort has been made to revise the work in the light of the fresh materials tha t have accumulated during the last sixteen years; but I can make no claim to have made myself acquainted with the whole of the vast literature on the subject, in upwards of ten different languages, which has been published during this interval. The growing interest in Islam and the various branches of study connected with it, may be estimated from the fact that since 1906 five periodicals have made their appearance devoted to investi gations cognate to the subject - matter of the present work, viz. Revue du M onde Musulman, publié e par La Mission Scientifique du Maroc ( Paris, 1906 - ); Der Islam, Zeitschrift fü r Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (Strassburg, 1910 - ) ; The Moslem World, a quarterly review of current events, literature, and thought amon g Mohammedans, and the progress of Christian Missions in Moslem lands (London, 1911 - ); Mir Islama (St. Petersburg, 1912 - ); and Die Welt des Islams, Zeitschrift der deutschen Gesellschaft f ü r Islamkunde (Berlin, 1913 — ). The Christian missionary societies are also now devoting increased attention to the subject of Muslim missionary activity and accordingly it takes up a proportionately larger place in their publications than before. This second edition would have been completed several years ago but for th e illiberal policy which closes the Reading Room of the British Museum at 7 o'clock and has thus made it practically inaccessible to me except on Saturdays. 1 I therefore desire to express my grateful thanks to those friends who have facilitated my labours by the loan of books from the Libraries of the University of Leiden and the University of Utrecht (through the kind offices of Professor Wensinck), and the É cole des Langues Or ientales Vivantes, Paris; — to Mr. J. A. Oldham, editor of The Inter national Revi ew of Missions, I am indebted for the loan of volumes of the Allgemeine Missions - Zeitschrift, a set of which I have been unable to find in London; my thanks are specially due to Dr. F. W. Thomas, who has allowed me to study for lengthy periods (along with other books from the India Office Library) the monumental Annali dell' Islam by Leone Caetani, Principe di Teano, — a work of inestimable value for the early history of Islam, but unfor tunately placed out of the reach of the average scholar by reason of its great cost. I am also much indebted for several valuable indications to those scholars who reviewed the book when it first appeared, — above all, to Professor Goldziher, whose sym pathetic interest in this work has encouraged me to continue it. London, 1913 . 1 The Student of t he l i teratue of Science or of the fine Arts finds the libaries at South Kensington open till 10 o'clock on three evenings every week, but the one library in this country that aims at any completeness is available only to such students as are at leisure dur ing the day - time. Calling to Islam is an obligation for those who obtain the knowledge. However, calling to Islam is a skillful matter that has special etiquette which needs to be educated to the callers of Islam.
توماس أرنولد - توماس وولكر آرنولد (بالإنجليزية: Thomas Walker Arnold) (مواليد 1864- وفيات 1930) مستشرق بريطاني شهير، بدأ حياته العلمية في جامعة كمبردج، حيث أظهر حبه للغات فتعلم العربية وانتقل للعمل باحثاً في جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية في الهند حيث أمضى هناك عشر سنوات ألف خلالها كتابه المشهور (الدعوة إلى الإسلام)، ثم عمل أستاذاً للفلسفة في جامعة لاهور، وفي عام 1904 عاد إلى لندن ليصبح أميناً مساعداً لمكتبة إدارة الحكومة الهندية التابعة لوزارة الخارجية البريطانية، وعمل في الوقت نفسه أستاذاً غير متفرغ في جامعة لندن وكان عضو هيئة تحرير دائرة المعارف الإسلامية التي صدرت في ليدن بهولندا في طبعتها الأولى. عمل أستاذاً زائراً في الجامعة المصرية عام 1930. ويذكر أنه كان معلما للمفكر الإسلامي الهندي محمد إقبال. كان المستشرق والمؤرخ البريطاني البارز للفن الإسلامي الذي كان يدرس في الكلية المحمدية الآنجلو شرقية ، جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية، ثم كلية عليكرة، والحكومات كلية جامعة لاهور - السير توماس أرنولد ووكر (1930 1864، ديفونبورت، ديفون). كان صديقا لأحمد خان السير سيد، وكتب كتابه الشهير "الدعوة الإسلامية" في إصرار سيد سيدي. كما كان المعلم الشهير محمد إقبال الشاعر والفيلسوف، سيد سليمان الندوي وصديق مقرب جدا من نعماني شبلي الذي كان أيضا مدرسا في جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية ❰ له مجموعة من الإنجازات والمؤلفات أبرزها ❞ The Preaching Of Islam ❝ ❱
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