The Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment. The Gunning Lectures Edinburgh University, 1925.

Bell, Richard.

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Book ID: 3848

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8vo. vii, 224 pp., half-title, contemporary blue cloth in torn d/w, title gilt on spine, index, previous owner’s inscription on front endpaper, light foxing to end leaves, very few pencil markings in margins, otherwise copy in good condition, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London, first edition, 1926.

Synopsis

A series of seven lectures by leading academics as follows:
1- The Eastern church and the Christian environment of Arabia.
2- Christianity in South Arabia and its influence upon the Arabs in general.
3- The beginning of Muhammad’s religious activities.
4- The molding of the Prophet.
5- The attitude of the prophet towards Christianity.
6- The Christian populations at the Arab conquest.
7- Christian influence in early Islam.

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