William Muir

Sir William Muir KCSI (27 April 1819 – 11 Juli 1905) adalah seorang Skotlandia Orientalis, dan administrator kolonial, Kepala Sekolah Universitas Edinburgh dan Letnan Gubernur Provinsi Barat Laut British India.

Bust of William Muir by Charles McBride

Kehidupan

William Muir's grave, Dean Cemetery

Ia lahir di Glasgow putra William Muir (1783–1820), seorang pedagang, dan Helen Macfie (1784–1866). Kakak laki-lakinya adalah John Muir, Indologist dan Sansekerta sarjana. Dia dididik di Kilmarnock Academy, universitas Glasgow dan Edinburgh, dan Haileybury College.

Publikasi

• The Life of Muhammad and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira
  • Vols. 1–2 published in 1858 by Smith, Elder, & Co.
  • Vols. 3–4 published in 1861 by Smith, Elder, & Co. together with a reprinting of the first two volumes; title shortened to The Life of Muhammad.
• The life of Muhammad from original sources
  • 2nd abridged one-volume ed. of the above published in 1878, xi+errata slip, xxviii, 624 pp. London: Smith, Elder, & Co.
  • 3rd abridged ed. published in 1894 by Smith, Elder, & Co., ciii, 536 p.
  • posthumously revised ed. by Thomas Hunter Weir published in 1912 as The life of Mohammad from original sources, cxix, 556 pp.
• The Mameluke or Slave Dynasty of Egypt, 1260–1517 AD, end of the Caliphate
• The Caliphate: Its rise, decline and fall
• The Apology of al-Kindy, 1882
• Annals of the Early Caliphate
• The Sources of Islam, A Persian Treatise, by the Rev. W. St. Clair-Tisdall, translated and abridged by W. M. 1901. Edinburgh, T & T Clark.
• Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-West Provinces of India during the Mutiny of 1857 including correspondence with the supreme government, Delhi, Cawnpore, and other places. 1902. 2 vols, Edinburgh, T & T Clark.
• Agra in the Mutiny: And the Family Life of W. & E. H. Muir in the Fort, 1857 : a Sketch for Their Children. 1896. 59 pp. Privately published.
• Two Old Faiths: Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans. J. Murray Mitchell and Sir William Muir. 1901. New York: Chautauqua Press.
• Muhammad and Islam
• The Rise and Decline of Islam
• The Lord's Supper: an abiding witness to the death of Christ
• Sweet First-Fruits. A tale of the Nineteenth Century, on the truth and virtue of the Christian Religion
• The Beacon of Truth; or, Testimony of the Coran to the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1894
• The Mohammedan Controversy, 1897
• James Thomason, lieutenant-governor N.-W. P., India, 1897
• The Teaching of the Coran
• The Opium Revenue (1875)

Lihat pula

• Orientalisme
• Sejarah Al-Qur'an