The Merits of Islam and the Prayer Book of Islam - Paperback

by Muhammed A. Al--Ahari (Author), Hamid Urban Snow (Author)

This is an annotated edition of Merits of Islam and Prayer Book for Moslems by the Anglo-Indian covert to islam Maulvi Abdul Hamid Snow. These works were first published in Lahore in the 1890s by the Mohammadan Tract and Book Depot which also published the works of two others converts and propagandists -Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb of New York and Sheikh-ul-Islam Abdullah Quilliam of Liverpool.

Author Biography

Maulvi Abdul Hamid Snow was one of the earliest British converts to Islam. He led his own mosque in Lahore and wrote texts which presented Islam and its rituals in English. Snow presented a Westernized form of Islam to be led by converts.