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David Brown, Patna, 28 March, 1809, II, p.238. i[12] Daniel Corrie, 10 Jan. 1810, Journals and Letters, II, p.281. i[13] Martyn to Lydia Grenfell, Shiraz, 23 June, 1811, Journals and Letters, II, 364. i[11] The tracts generated by Martyn's encounters Persia were collected, translated and published by Samuel Lee, Controversial Tracts on Christianity and Mohammedanism by the late Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D....and some of the most eminent writers of Persia translated and explained (Cambridge, 1824). i[15] For details on the Urdu, Arabic and Persian translations now held in i[14] see, T.H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, The Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 2 vols (London, 1903-1911). Cambridge background see, Peter Hardy, The Muslims of British India (Cambridge, 1972), chaps 2-3; Avril A. Powell, Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India (London, 1993), chap. 2. i[17] Powell, Muslims, chaps. 4-8. i[18] For an overview of William Muir's scholarly interactions with i[16]For 'ulama see, Avril A. Powell, 'Modernist Muslim Responses to Christian Critiques of Islamic Culture, Civilization, and History in Northern India', in Judith M. Brown and Robert Eric Frykenberg (eds), Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions (Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge and London, 2002), pp.61-91. 'modernist' William Muir, Life of Mahomet from Original Sources, 4 vols (London, 1858-61). i[20] For an insightful study of John Muir's theological evolution and relations i[19] north Indian pandits see, Richard Fox Young, Resistant Hinduism: Sanskrit sources on anti-Christian apologetics in early Nineteenth-Century India (Vienna, 1981). i[21] Clinton Bennett, Victorian Images of Islam (London, 1992), pp.13-18; chap. 5. with
William Muir, 'The Mohammedan Controversy', Calcutta Review, IV (Dec.1845), pp.418-75. i[23] See above, footnote14. On Samuel Lee see, A.M. Lee, A Scholar of a Past Generation: a Brief Memoir of Samuel Lee, D.D. (Cambrideg, 1896). i[24] William Muir, Masihi kalisiya ki tarikh (Agra, 1848) i[22] Powell, Muslims, chaps. 7-8. i[26] Eg, Rahmat Allah al-Hindi, al-haqq [Manifestation of the Truth](Cairo, 1978; 1986); Izhar-ul-haq, Part 1;2: Contradictions and Errors in Biblical Text (London, 1989). i[27] For a synopsis this Arabic work, which is very rare, see Maulvi Abdul i[25] Life Work of Jawad Sabat, Arab Traveller, Writer Apologist: Together with a review of his Romantic Career, as a Christian and Muslim (Calcutta and Simla, 1925). Wali, Syed Ahmed Khan, A Series of Essays the Life of Muhammad and Subjects Subsidiary Thereto (London, 1870) i[33]Including English editions (Agra, 1856; London and Allahabad, 1860). i[30] Eg, Sweet First Fruits, subtitled, A tale of the nineteenth century on truth and virtue of the Christian Religion (1893); Moslems invited to read the i[28] (1899), written for the maulvies of Persia. i[31]For more detailed discussion of these two converts see, Avril A. Powell, 'Processes Conversion to Christianity Nineteenth-Century North-Western India', Geoffrey A. Oddie (ed) Religious Conversion Movements in South Asia: Continuities and Change, 1800-1900 (London, 1997), pp.15-55; '"Pillar Bible a New Faith": Christianity in Late-Nineteenth Punjab from the Perspective a Convert from Islam' [Imad ud-din], in Robert Eric Frykenberg (ed) Christians and Missionaries India: Cross-cultural Communication since of (Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge and London, 2003), pp. 223-55. On 'Abdul Masih see also, Graham Kings, 'Abdul Masih: Icon of Indian Indigeneity', International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 23:2 (April, 1999), pp.66-9. i[32] See issues of the Missionary Register, 1813-27, for Abdul Masih's 1500 and letters, and also for the comments of others about him. journals
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