Sir Thomas Walker Arnold A Great Orientalist & Historian
Sir Thomas Walker Arnold
(1864–1930)
Sir Thomas walker Arnold was a famous educator.
He was born in Devanport a city of England in 19 April 1964. He got his
education from city school of London and mecadman college of London. He studied
Greece and Latin literature there. Moreover he is also master in German,
Italian, Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Russian, French, Dutch and Portugalian
languages. He was also a British orientalist and historian of Islamic Art.
He was lecturer at MAO College Aligarh (then
Aligarh University) later on in 1898 in Government College university Lahore he
worked as a professor and later on became a Dean of oriental faculty at Punjab
University.
(Aligarh University)
(GC College Lahore)
(Punjab University Lahore)
He taught Philosophy in Lahore. From 1904 to 1909 he posted as a assistant
librarian in Indian library.
He was a friend of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and
wrote a book "Preaching of Islam" in the insistence of Sir Syed Ahmad
Khan. He also taught to a very well known Poet and Philosopher Dr. Muhammad
Allama Iqbal and Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, and he was also a very close friend to
Shibli Nomani who is also a teacher at Aligarh.
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.
He was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental Studies, University
of London, from 1921
to 1930.
Sir Arnold became the first English editor for the first
edition of The
Encyclopaedia of Islam. In 1922 he was granted with the great honor as a "Sir". He was made Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1912, and in
1921 was given a Knighthood. He married Celia Mary Hickson in 1892. He died on 9 June 1930. His
book on Islam "Preaching of Islam" earned very fame. He was also a
president of "Urdu promoting Association".
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