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About the Book:- This Book contain five essays. These Essays are taken from the Calcutta Review. First essay, 1845 A. D. The Mohammedan Controvercy. Second Essay, 1852 A. D. Biographies of Mohammed. The Essay opens with a waening against the danger of publishing incorrect biographies of the prophet. Third Essay, 1868 A. D. Sprenger on the Sources and Growth of Moslem Tradition. This is Dr. Spenger’s monograph on Mohamedan tradition, being a preface of 180 pages to his great work. Fourth Essay, 1850 A. D. The Indian Liturgy. Our prayer Book is altogether inadequate to meet of the Indian Church. Fifth Essay, 1887 A. D. The Freer and more varied use of the psalms in our churches. Looking to the Eastern and Roman Churches, we find that the serial repetition of the psalter is modified by the psalter is modified by the use in its stead of the proper psalms appointed for the ferial and saints’ days constantly recurring in their services. About the Author:- Sir William Muir, Order of the Star of India (1819–1905) was a Scottish Orientalist, and colonial administrator, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Provinces of British India. Muir was a scholar of Islam. His chief area of expertise was the history of the time of Muhammad and the early caliphate. His chief books are A Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira; Annals of the Early Caliphate; The Caliphate: Its rise, decline and fall, an abridgment and continuation of the Annals, which brings the record down to the fall of the caliphate on the onset of the Mongols; The Koran: its Composition and Teaching; and The Mohammedan Controversy, a reprint of five essays published at intervals between 1885 and 1887. In 1888 he delivered the Rede lecture at Cambridge on The Early Caliphate and Rise of Islam. The Title 'THE MOHAMMEDAN CONTROVERSY BIOGRAPHIES OF MOHAMMED SPRENGER ON TRADITION THE INDIAN LITURGY AND THE PSALTER written/authored/edited by WILLIAM MUIR', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121262156 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 246 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Biography. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-