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Thomas Walker Arnold

1864 - 1930

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Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (19 April 1864 – 9 June 1930) was a British orientalist and historian of Islamic art. He taught at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO College), later Aligarh Muslim University, and Government College University, Lahore. Arnold was a friend of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who influenced him to write the famous book The Preaching of Islam, and of Shibli Nomani, with whom he taught at Aligarh. He taught Syed Sulaiman Nadvi and the poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Walker Arnold is the 494th most popular historian (down from 417th in 2019), the 4,668th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,558th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 494 out of 561. Before him are Aleks Buda, Stephen F. Cohen, Samuel Eliot Morison, Michelle Perrot, Rainer Zitelmann, and Frederic G. Kenyon. After him are Alfred W. Crosby, Robert Service, Daniel Pipes, William of Newburgh, American Horse, and Walter Rodney.

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Among people born in 1864, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 163. Before him are Sergei Zubatov, Emil Kellenberger, Alexandre Levy, Elinor Glyn, Emine Semiye Önasya, and Frances Benjamin Johnston. After him are Cosmo Gordon Lang, Alice Davenport, Banjo Paterson, John Henry Davies, Alfred John Keene, and Antonín Sova. Among people deceased in 1930, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 121. Before him are Eligio Ayala, Eduard David, Peter Warlock, Henri Cohen, Varlam Avanesov, and William Diller Matthew. After him are Erik Algot Fredriksson, Maria Polydouri, Edward Angle, Robert Hennet, Sigurd Ibsen, and Rebecca Latimer Felton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 4,669 out of 8,785. Before him are John Peckham (1227), I. J. Good (1916), Jhumpa Lahiri (1967), Gareth Barry (1981), Hugh Hopper (1945), and Maud Gonne (1866). After him are Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Miriam Rothschild (1908), Amira Casar (1971), Ray Wilkins (1956), Ed Stafford (1975), and Dev Patel (1990).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 58. Before him are Niall Ferguson (1964), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), William Robertson (1721), William Dalrymple (1965), Thomas Fuller (1608), and Frederic G. Kenyon (1863). After him are Robert Service (1947), William of Newburgh (1130), Mark Mazower (1958), William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), N. G. L. Hammond (1907), and Richard Overy (1947).

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