Monday, February 27, 2012

Thomas Carlyle

(1795-1881), a Scottish essayist and historian, gave a lecture on Prophet Muhammad in 1841, titled "The Hero as Prophet," and wrote his famous book, On Heroes, Hero-Worship an the Heroic in History. Karen Armstrong, a contemporary writer and historian of religion, evaluates Thomas Carlyle's lecture as the first attempt in Europe to see Muhammad as a genuinely religious man. (Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, San Francisco, 1993, p. 38).

-footnote 56 on page 138 of Said Nursi's The Reasonings: A Key to Understanding the Qur'an's Eloquence (translated by Huseyin Akarsu).

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