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Article: Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India.
- Article from:
- International Review of Mission
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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By Anne Avril Powell. Richmond, U.K.: Curzon Press, 1993, 339 pp. London Studies on Southeast Asia, No. 7.
It is still, sadly, unusual to find western missiologists capable of speaking and reading a major non-western language. This publication of the SOAS historian Avril Powell is therefore an important event. Dr Powell can work both in Urdu and in Persian. Her analysis of the events and processes in Christian-Muslim relations centred on the public dispute between K.G. Pfander and Rahmat Allah Al-Kairanawi in Agra in 1854 looks at the two sides symmetrically -- a most rare achievement, and very instructive.
At one level it would seem that the great lesson to ...