Thomas Walker Arnold
Devonport, Devon, England | |
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Died | 9 June 1930 , England | (aged 66)
Sir Thomas Walker Arnold
Arnold was a friend of
Life
Thomas Walker Arnold was born in Devonport, Plymouth on 19 April 1864,[4] and educated at the City of London School. From 1888 he worked as a teacher at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh. In 1892 he married Celia Mary Hickson,[2] a niece of Theodore Beck.[4]
In 1898, he accepted a post as Professor of Philosophy at the
From 1904 to 1909, he was on the staff of the India Office as Assistant Librarian. In 1909 he was appointed Educational Adviser to Indian students in Britain.
Arnold was invested as a Companion of the
Works
- The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith. Westminster: A. Constable and co. 1896. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- (trans. and ed.) J.M. Dent, 1898.
- The Court Painters of the Grand Moghuls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- The Caliphate. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reissued with an additional chapter by Sylvia G. Haim: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1965.
- Painting in Islam, A Study of the Place of Pictorial Art in Muslim Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. Reprint ed. 1965.
- Bihzad and his Paintings in the Zafar-namah ms. London: B. Quaritch, 1930.
- (with Alfred Guillaume) The Legacy of Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931.
- The Old and New Testaments in Muslim Religious Art. London: Pub. for the British Academy by Schweich Lecturesfor 1928.
References
- ^ "Empire in Your Backyard: Imperial Plymouth". britishempire.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Robinson, B.W. "ARNOLD, THOMAS WALKER – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Sir Thomas Walker Arnold | Aligarh Movement". aligarhmovement.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ a b c "Thomas W. Arnold | Making Britain". open.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Thomas Walker Arnold". Goodreads. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ Arnold, Thomas Walker (1 January 1913). The preaching of Islam : a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith. London : Constable.
External links
- Arnold, Sir Thomas Walker Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine, School of Oriental and African Studies: home page
- Sir Thomas Walker entry in Encyclopaedia Iranica