Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (19 April 1864 – 9 June 1930) was a
British orientalist and historian of
Islamic art. He taught at
Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College), later
Aligarh Muslim University, and
Government College University, Lahore.
Arnold was a friend of
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who influenced him to write the famous book ''
The Preaching of Islam'',
[ and of Shibli Nomani, with whom he taught at Aligarh. He taught Syed Sulaiman Nadvi and the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal.][
]
Life
Thomas Walker Arnold was born in Devonport, Plymouth 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 MAO College, Aligarh. In 1892 he married Celia Mary Hickson,[ a niece of Theodore Beck.][
In 1898, he accepted a post as Professor of Philosophy at the Government College, Lahore 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.]University of London
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, from 1921 to 1930.[
Arnold was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1912, and in 1921 was invested as a ]knight
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.
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, 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 for 1928.
References
External links
Arnold, Sir Thomas Walker
, School of Oriental and African Studies: home page
Sir Thomas Walker
entry in Encyclopaedia Iranica
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1864 births
1930 deaths
Academic staff of Aligarh Muslim University
Academic staff of the Government College University, Lahore
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
British art critics
British historians of Islam
Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
English orientalists
Historians of Indian art
Knights Bachelor
People educated at the City of London School
People from Devonport, Plymouth
Victorian writers
19th-century English writers
20th-century English writers
20th-century English male writers