A. George Baker
Anthony George Baker | |
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Died | February 17, 1918 | (aged 69)
Known for | translator of The Phonendoscope and its Practical Application (1898); Christian theologian and an early American convert to Islam |
Anthony George Baker (February 2, 1849
Background
Anthony George Baker was born in
During his stay in Atlantic City, Baker inclined increasingly towards Episcopalianism and converted to the Episcopalian church, becoming a Deacon and then, in 1879, an ordained priest. He worked both as an assistant rector and rector of several churches in Pennsylvania, including, as assistant to the rectors of St. George's Church, Philadelphia[3] and the Church of The Epiphany. He also founded St. Simeon's Church in Philadelphia.[3]
Alongside his work as a clergyman, Baker studied at the
Conversion to Islam
George Baker's earliest known connection with American Muslim converts was in August 1893 when Alexander Russell Webb, another early American convert to Islam, published a section of a work by Baker concerning the relationship between medieval Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem in his newspaper the Moslem World.[8] According to author Patrick D. Bowen, Baker was in contact with Webb and may have run his Oriental Publishing Company from a Philadelphia post office in 1892 and 1894.[9] He was known for his lectures on Islam in Philadelphia and may also have been secretly associated with a group of about twenty Muslim converts in the city during this period.[10] Baker's Muslim contacts outside the United States included the English convert Abdullah Quilliam and in January 1896 he explicitly identified as a Muslim in a letter to Quilliam's newspaper The Crescent.[8]
Baker also had connections with the
Selected bibliography
- The History of the Germans in America (1891)
- German-American Christianity and the Protestant Episcopal Church
- History of the Knights of St. John of Malta
- The Phonendoscope and its Practical Application (1898; translator)[16]
- The Flora of Arabia and the Arabian Prophet
- The Revival of Learning
- 'Muhammad the Founder of an Empire, and of a Religion Which Is Still Spreading' (February 1912) in The Review of Religions, 11, (2)[17]
- 'The One God and Islam Is the Religion of All Men' (August 1913) in The Review of Religions, 12, (8)[18]
See also
- Alexander Russell Webb
- George Bethune English
- Abdullah Quilliam
- Ahmadiyya in the United States
- Islam in the United States
- List of former Christians
- List of converts to Islam
Notes
- ^ The Bulletin of the Western Theological Seminary, p.164
- ^ a b c Luqman 2019, p. 44.
- ^ a b c Luqman 2019, p. 45.
- ^ a b Bowen 2015, p. 170.
- ^ Luqman 2019, pp. 45–46.
- ^ a b c Luqman 2019, p. 46.
- ^ Who's Who in Pennsylvania, 2nd Edition, (1908), p.32
- ^ a b c Bowen 2015, p. 171.
- ^ Bowen 2015, pp. 170–71.
- ^ Bowen 2015, pp. 171–72.
- ^ a b Luqman 2019, p. 47.
- ^ Geaves 2018, p. 125.
- ^ Luqman 2019, pp. 46–47.
- ^ Luqman 2019, pp. 47–48.
- ^ Luqman 2019, p. 48.
- ^ "Translation of lectures delivered by Aurelio Bianchi ... On the phonendoscope and its practical application". 1898.
- ^ "Muhammad the Founder of an Empire, and of a Religion Which Is Still Spreading" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 16, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
- ^ "The One God and Islam Is the Religion of All Men" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 7, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
References
- Bowen, Patrick D. (2015). A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-29994-8.
- Geaves, Ron (2018). Islam and Britain: Muslim Mission in an Age of Empire. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-7173-8.
- Luqman, Yahya (2019). "The First Ahmadi Muslim Convert in Philadelphia". The Review of Religions. 114 (4). Islamic Publications.