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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Walker Arnold has received more than 141,894 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Walker Arnold is the 417th most popular historian, the 3,559th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 38th most popular British Historian.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 417 out of 561. Before him are Ekvtime Takaishvili, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, Thomas Fuller, Boris Chicherin, Neagu Djuvara, and Heinrich Ewald. After him are Isabella Bashmakova, Yehuda Bauer, Avi Shlaim, Eadmer, Ilya Berezin, and ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 135. Before him are Stéphane Javelle, John Henry Davies, Alfred John Keene, Herman Heijermans, Juhan Liiv, and F. Holland Day. After him are Ransom E. Olds, Ludwig Schlesinger, José Pardo y Barreda, Alberto Nepomuceno, Hanna Pauli, and Stanley Maude. Among people deceased in 1930, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 104. Before him are Vintilă Brătianu, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Florian Cajori, Leonard Meredith, Nikolay Kasatkin, and Alfred John Keene. After him are John Russell, Mary Whiton Calkins, Helene Lange, Joseph Alzin, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, and Gabriel Miró.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 3,559 out of 8,785. Before him are Roy Jenkins (1920), Catherine McCormack (1972), Gary Numan (1958), Thomas Morley (1557), Jonny Greenwood (1971), and Hilda of Whitby (614). After him are Christopher Middleton (1690), Kaya Scodelario (1992), Henry Cooper (1934), Leslie Graham (1911), Christopher Cazenove (1943), and Imogen Heap (1977).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Walker Arnold ranks 38. Before him are Francis Godwin (1562), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), Agnes Arber (1879), Stanley Morison (1889), and Thomas Fuller (1608). After him are G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), Frances Yates (1899), George Finlay (1799), and Martin Gilbert (1936).

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