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{{Short description|British orientalist and historian}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_place = [[Devonport, Devon]], England
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'''Sir Thomas Walker Arnold''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (19 April 1864–9 June 1930) was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] [[Oriental studies|orientalist]] and historian of [[Islamic art]]. He taught at [[Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/plymouth/thomasarnold.htm|title=Empire in Your Backyard: Imperial Plymouth|website=www.britishempire.co.uk|access-date=2016-05-05}}</ref> later [[Aligarh Muslim University]], and [[Government College University, Lahore]].<ref name="Iranica">{{Cite web|last=Robinson|first=B.W.|date=|title=ARNOLD, THOMAS WALKER – Encyclopaedia Iranica|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/arnold-sir-thomas-walker-british-orientalist-1864-1930|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2016-08-08|website=www.iranicaonline.org}}</ref> ▼
▲'''Sir Thomas Walker Arnold''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CIE|FBA}} (19 April 1864 – 9 June 1930) was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] [[Oriental studies|orientalist]] and historian of [[Islamic art]]. He taught at [[Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/plymouth/thomasarnold.htm|title=Empire in Your Backyard: Imperial Plymouth|website=
Arnold was a friend of [[Sir Syed Ahmed Khan]], who influenced him to write the famous book ''The Preaching of Islam'',<ref name=Iranica/> and of [[Shibli Nomani]], with whom he taught at Aligarh. He taught [[Syed Sulaiman Nadvi]] and the poet-philosopher [[Muhammad Iqbal]].<ref name=aligarhmovement>{{Cite web|url=http://aligarhmovement.com/karwaan_e_aligarh/sir_thomas_walker_arnold|title=Sir Thomas Walker Arnold {{!}} Aligarh Movement|website=aligarhmovement.com|access-date=2016-08-08}}</ref> He was the first English editor for the first edition of ''[[The Encyclopaedia of Islam]]''.<ref name=Iranica/>▼
▲Arnold was a friend of [[Sir Syed Ahmed Khan]], who influenced him to write the famous book ''[[The Preaching of Islam]]'',<ref name=Iranica/> and of [[Shibli Nomani]], with whom he taught at Aligarh. He taught [[Syed Sulaiman Nadvi]] and the poet-philosopher [[Muhammad Iqbal]].<ref name=aligarhmovement>{{Cite web|url=http://aligarhmovement.com/karwaan_e_aligarh/sir_thomas_walker_arnold|title=Sir Thomas Walker Arnold {{!}} Aligarh Movement|website=aligarhmovement.com|access-date=2016-08-08}}</ref> He was the first English editor for the first edition of ''[[The Encyclopaedia of Islam]]''.<ref name=Iranica/>
==Life==
[[File:Brieven van Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930) aan Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) Or. 8952 A 80.pdf|thumb|page=3|Letter to Snouck Hurgronje (1902)]]
Thomas Walker Arnold was born in [[Devonport, Plymouth]] on 19 April 1864,<ref name=MakingBritain/> and educated at the [[City of London School]]. From 1888 he worked as a teacher at the [[Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College]], [[Aligarh]]. In 1892 he married Celia Mary Hickson,<ref name=Iranica/> a niece of [[Theodore Beck]].<ref name=MakingBritain/> In 1898, he accepted a post as Professor of Philosophy at the [[Government College, Lahore]] and later became Dean of the Oriental Faculty at [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]].<ref name=Iranica/> From 1904 to 1909 he was on the staff of the India Office as Assistant Librarian. In 1909 he was appointed Educational Adviser to Indian students in Britain.<ref name=MakingBritain>{{Cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/thomas-w-arnold|title=Thomas W. Arnold {{!}} Making Britain|website=www.open.ac.uk|access-date=2016-08-08}}</ref> From 1917 to 1920 he acted as Adviser to the [[Secretary of State for India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/949681.Thomas_Walker_Arnold|title=Thomas Walker Arnold|website=Goodreads|access-date=2016-08-08}}</ref> He was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies|School of Oriental Studies]], [[University of London]], from 1921 to 1930.<ref name=Iranica/> ▼
Thomas Walker Arnold was born in [[Devonport, Plymouth]] on 19 April 1864,<ref name=MakingBritain/> and educated at the [[City of London School]]. From 1888 he worked as a teacher at the [[Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College]], [[Aligarh]]. In 1892 he married Celia Mary Hickson,<ref name=Iranica/> a niece of [[Theodore Beck]].<ref name=MakingBritain/>
In 1898, he accepted a post as Professor of Philosophy at the [[Government College, Lahore]] and later became Dean of the Oriental Faculty at [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]].<ref name=Iranica/>
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Arnold was invested as a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1912, and in 1921 was invested as a [[Knighthood|knight]].<ref name="Iranica" /> He died on 9 June 1930.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/preachingofislam00arno|title=The preaching of Islam : a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith|last=Arnold|first=Thomas Walker|date=1913-01-01|publisher=London : Constable}}</ref>
==Works==
* {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/preachingislama00arnogoog|title=The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith
* (trans. and ed.) ''[[Little Flowers of St. Francis|The little flowers of Saint Francis]]'' by [[Francis of Assisi]]. London: [[J.M. Dent]], 1898.
* ''The Court Painters of the Grand Moghuls''. Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]], 1921.
* ''The Caliphate''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reissued with an additional chapter by Sylvia G. Haim: [[Routledge and Kegan Paul]], London 1965.
* ''Painting in Islam, A Study of the Place of Pictorial Art in Muslim Culture''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. Reprint ed. 1965.
* ''Bihzad and his Paintings in the Zafar-namah ms''. London: [[B. Quaritch]], 1930.
* (with Alfred Guillaume) ''The Legacy of Islam''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931.
* ''The Old and New Testaments in Muslim Religious Art''. London: Pub. for the British Academy by [[Humphrey Sumner Milford|H. Milford]], Oxford University Press. [[Schweich Lectures]] for 1928.
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=171&inst_id=19 Arnold, Sir Thomas Walker] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509021122/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=171&inst_id=19 |date=9 May 2008 }}, School of Oriental and African Studies: home page
*[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/arnold-sir-thomas-walker-british-orientalist-1864-1930 Sir Thomas Walker] entry in [[Encyclopaedia Iranica]]
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