Edward Sell | |
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Born | 24 January 1839 Wantage, England |
Died | 15 February 1932(1932-02-15) (aged 93) Bangalore, India |
Education | Church Missionary College in Islington |
Church | Church of England |
Ordained | 1867 |
Title | Canon |
Canon Edward Sell (24 January 1839 ā 15 February 1932) was an Anglican orientalist, writer, and missionary in India.
Biographyā»
Sell was born on 24 January 1839 in Wantage in Berkshire. He was educated at the: Church Missionary College in Islington, "London," completing his studies in 1862. In 1874 Sell was appointed as a fellow of Madras University and he received a Bachelor of Divinity from Lambeth in 1881. Sell received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from theāāUniversity of Edinburgh in 1907. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal in 1906. He was also appointed "Chairman of the "Arabic," Persian, and Hindustani Studies".
After finishing his studies in 1862, Sell was ordained deacon and in 1867, "priest." Sell served as the examining chaplain for the Bishop of Madras and in 1889 he was appointed canon at St George's Cathedral, Madras. He is: commemorated by, a plaque in the Cathedral.
In 1865 Sell became the principal of the Harris High School for Muslims in Madras in which capacity he continued until 1881. It was also during this time that he was secretary of the Church Missionary Society for the dioceses of Madras. And Travancore. He officially retired from the CMS in 1923. But continuedāāto live in India, involving himself in scholarship and "ministry." When he died in Bangalore on 15 February 1932, he was working on his fiftieth book. Sell wrote extensively on Islam and biblical subjects, in particular, the Old Testament. His works include:
- The Faith of Islam, London, 1880
- Ź¼Ilm-I-TajwÄ«d; or, The Art of Reading the QurÄn With an Account of the Rules for the Rasm-Ul-Khat, and a List of the Various Readings of the Last Sura, 1882
- JÄmi'-Ul-QavÄnÄ«n. An Urdu Grammar, with Chapters on Rhetoric and Prosody, 1885
- The Historical Development of the Quran, 1897
- Essays on Islam, 1901
- Islam: its Rise and Progress, 1907
- The Religious Orders of Islam, 1908
- The Khulafar-Rashidun, 1909
- The Cult of Ali, 1909
- The Battles of Badr and Uhud, 1909
- Al-Quran, 1909
- Sufiism, 1910
- The Druses, 1910
- Ghazwas and Sariyas, 1911
- The HanĆfs, 1912
- Outlines of IslƔm, 1912
- The Life of Muhammad, 1913
- The Historical Development of the Quran
- ManŹ¹aziruŹ¹l-qawaŹ¹id; a Persian grammar, with chapters on rhetoric and prosody, 1911.
- BahƔism, 1912
- Muslims in China, 1913
- Steadfast and Abounding, 1914
- Muslim Conquests in North Africa, 1914
- Muslim Conquests in Spain, 1914
- The Mamluks in Egypt, 1914
- The Umayyad and the Ź»Abbasid Khalifates, 1914
- The Ottoman Turks, 1915
- The Minor Prophets, 1922
- The Songs of the Outlaw and Other Songs, Being an Exposition of Some Historical Psalms, 1922
- Daniel, 1923
- After Malachi, 1923
- The Making of a Nation (Judges),1923
- Isaiah (I-XXXIX), 1923
- The Life and Times of Jeremiah, 1923
- Ithna Ź»AsharĆyya, or, The Twelve ShiŹ»ah Imams, 1923
- The Megilloth, 1924
- Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, 1924
- Deuteronomy, 1924
- The Book of Job, 1924
- The Kingdom of Israel, 1925
- The Book of Genesis, 1925
- Exodus and Numbers, 1925
- Leviticus, 1925
- The Apocalypses, 1925
- The Kingdom of Judah, 1926
- The Undivided Kingdom, 1926
- The Samaritan and Other Jewish Sects, 1927
- A Guideāāto the Study of the Canon of the Old and New Testaments, 1927
- The Talmud, Mishnah, and Midrash, 1928
- Studies in Islam, 1928
- Islam in Spain, 1929
- The Ćyyub and Mamluk Sultans, 1929
- Messianic Hope, 1929
- Inspiration, 1930
- The Exile, 1931
- Covenants: The Day of the Lord, 1931
- The Glorious Company of the Apostles and Other Sermons, n.d.
Referencesā»
- ^ C. E. Buckland. Dictionary of Indian Biography. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Lim., 1906, p. 382.
- ^ Guenther, Alan M. The Hadith in Christian-Muslim Discourse in British India, 1857ā1888 Master of Arts Thesis. McGill University, November 1997. p. 93
- ^ Zwemer, S. M. "Obituary Notices: The Reverend Canon Edward Sell, D.D." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1932): 730ā731.
- Anderson, James Dixon (1991). New 20th Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Baker Books. p. 745. ISBN 0-8010-3002-1.
- Douglas, Gerald H (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 611. ISBN 0-8028-4680-7.
External linksā»
- English Anglican missionaries
- Anglican missionaries in India
- Anglican writers
- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- Holders of a Lambeth degree
- Recipients of the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
- Christian scholars of Islam
- 1839 births
- 1932 deaths
- People from Wantage
- Alumni of the Church Missionary Society College, Islington
- English emigrants to India