A critical examination of the life and teachings of Mohammed

by Syed Ameer Ali

Excerpt from A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Mohammed

The idea of a future existence, the product of a gradual develop ment  The idea of a future life among the Egyptians  the Jews  the Aryans-the Zoroastrians  The Jewish belief in a personal Messiah  The geal origin of this belief  The character of the Christian traditions  The strongly developed idea of an imme diate Kingdom of Heaven in the mind of Jesus and the early disciples  Paradise and Hell, according to the traditional words of J csus  The millenarian dream  How it has died away  The Islamic conception of a future existence  The parabolic character of many verses of the Koran  Progressive development, a necessity of human nature  The Koranic conception of present and future happiness  Notes. P. 263 to 287.

366 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Syed Ameer Ali Order of the Star of India[3] (1849 – 1928) was an Indian/British Indian jurist hailing from the state of Oudh from where his father moved and settled down at Orissa. He was a prominent political leader, and author of a number of influential books on Muslim history and the modern development of Islam, who is credited for his contributions to the Law of India, particularly Muslim Personal Law, as well as the development of political philosophy for Muslims, during the British Raj. He was a signatory to the 1906 Petition to the Viceroy and was thus a founding-member of the All India Muslim League.

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