Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (19 April 1864 – 9 June 1930) was a
British
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orientalist and historian of
Islamic art
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. He taught at
Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
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, later
Aligarh Muslim University
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, and
Government College University, Lahore.
Arnold was a friend of
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Order of the Star of India, KCSI (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898; also Sayyid Ahmad Khan) was an Indian people, Indian Muslim Islamic modernist, reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British ...
, who influenced him to write the famous book ''The Preaching of Islam'',
[ and of ]Shibli Nomani
Shibli Nomani ( ur, – ; 3 June 1857 – 18 November 1914) was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj. He was born at Bindwal in Azamgarh district of present-day Uttar Pradesh.[Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
Syed Sulaiman Nadvi (—; 22 November 1884 – 22 November 1953) was a Pakistani historian, writer and scholar of Islam. He co-authored ''Sirat-un-Nabi'' and wrote ''Khutbat-e-Madras''.][Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...]
. He was the first English editor for the first edition of ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam
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''.[
]
Life
Thomas Walker Arnold was born in Devonport, Plymouth
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on 19 April 1864,[ and educated at the ]City of London School
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. From 1888 he worked as a teacher at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College ( ur, Madrasatul Uloom Musalmanan-e-Hind, italics=yes) was founded in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, initially as a primary school, with the intention of taking it to a college level institution, known as Muhammed ...
, Aligarh
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. In 1892 he married Celia Mary Hickson,[ a niece of ]Theodore Beck
Theodore Beck (4 July 1859 – 2 September 1899Buckland, C. E., ''Dictionary of Indian biography'', 1906) was a Quaker and British educationalist working for the British Raj in India. From 1883 until his death in 1899 he was Principal of Muha ...
.[
In 1898, he accepted a post as Professor of Philosophy at the ]Government College, Lahore
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In 1864, Gov ...
and later became Dean of the Oriental Faculty at Punjab University.[
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.] From 1917 to 1920 he acted as Adviser to the Secretary of State for India
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. He was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental Studies
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, University of London
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, from 1921 to 1930.[
Arnold was invested as a Companion of the ]Order of the Indian Empire
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in 1912, and in 1921 was invested as a knight
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. He died on 9 June 1930.
Works
*
* (trans. and ed.) '' The little flowers of Saint Francis'' by Francis of Assisi
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. London: J.M. Dent, 1898.
* ''The Court Painters of the Grand Moghuls''. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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, 1921.
* ''The Caliphate''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reissued with an additional chapter by Sylvia G. Haim: Routledge and Kegan Paul
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, 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 H. Milford, Oxford University Press. Schweich Lectures
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for 1928.
References
External links
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School of Oriental and African Studies: home page
Sir Thomas Walker
entry in Encyclopaedia Iranica
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