Victorian Diamond Jubilee Book Of Common Prayer - 1897 - Antique Theology Book

Victorian Diamond Jubilee Book Of Common Prayer - 1897 - Antique Theology BookThe Victorian Diamond Jubilee Book Of Common Prayer Of The Church Of EnglandPublished by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons: London 1897Printed In An Easy Reporting Style Of Pitman's ShorthandGeneral wear and rubbing to cover and spine as shown. Pages are clean and well presented with minimal light foxing to prelims. There are no loose pages. Good condition overall. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.Size 19cm x 13.5cm x 2.5cm

1874 Mohammed & Mohammedanism by R. Bosworth Smith Antique Theology Book

Mohammed & Mohammedanism - Lectures Delivered At The Royal Institution Of Great Britain In February and March 1874

By R. Bosworth Smith

Published by Smith, Elder & Co: London 1874 1st Edition

Carries the Ex Libris Bookplate of Patrick Irvine of Inveramsay

"Reginald Bosworth Smith (1839-1908) was an English academic, schoolmaster, man of letters and author. Bosworth Smith is now mainly remembered for Mohammed and Mohammedanism : Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1874 (1874).The book excited controversy, and ran to several editions. It was translated into Arabic.

Smith's views on Christianity and Islam drew on Heinrich Barth, Theodor Waitz and John Pope Hennessy.They can be placed in a "conciliatory" tradition represented by the Mahometanism Unveiled (1829) of Charles Forster (1787-1871), and The Religions of the World (1846) of F. D. Maurice. They were later supported by Edward Wilmot Blyden, a Liberian Christian missionary who argued that Islam had brought clear advantages to Africans. Blyden and Bosworth Smith met, through Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, became friends, exchanged visits, and corresponded at length. Smith's deprecation of Christian missionary efforts in Africa was already in Winwood Reade's Savage Africa. The contrasting adversarial stance against Islam, of William Muir's Life of Mahomet and The Coran, and followed by John Drew Bate and William St. Clair Tisdall, drew on oriental studies and established missionary views on conversion as an imperative."

General wear and some rub through to covers and spine as shown. Pages are clean and well presented. There are no loose pages. A nice copy in very good condition overall. Please study photos to further understand condition.