Wilfred Cantwell Smith

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Degrees

PhD Islamic Studies Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Wilfred Cantwell Smith was a Canadian Islamicist, comparative religion scholar, and Presbyterian minister. He was the founder of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Quebec and later the director of Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. The Harvard University Gazette said he was one of the field's most influential figures of the past century. In his 1962 work The Meaning and End of Religion he notably questioned the modern sectarian concept of religion.

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Published Works

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The Meaning And End Of Religion (1963) (787)
India as a Secular State (1963) (285)
The Meaning and End of Religion: A New Approach to the Religious Traditions of Mankind (1963) (139)
What is Scripture? A Comparative Approach (1993) (123)
Faith and Belief (1987) (111)
Islam in Modern History (1958) (110)
The meaning and end of religion : a new approach to the religious traditions of mankind (1965) (106)
Towards a world theology: Faith and the comparative history of religion (1981) (98)
Belief and History (1977) (61)
On Understanding Islam (1981) (61)
The Faith of Other Men (1963) (59)
Modern Islam in India : a social analysis (1979) (45)
Faith and Belief: The Difference Between Them (1998) (39)
Modern Islam in India (1943) (35)
The Study of Religion and the Study of the Bible (1971) (29)
On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies (1981) (22)
Questions of Religious Truth (1969) (22)
Believing: An Historical Perspective (1998) (21)
The True Meaning of Scripture: An Empirical Historian's Nonreductionist Interpretation of the Qur'an (1980) (21)
Modern culture from a comparative perspective (1997) (18)
Islam: The Straight Path - Islam Interpreted by Muslims (1958) (15)
Wilfred Cantwell Smith: A Reader (2001) (13)
The Shi'a of India. (1955) (13)
New education in the making in Pakistan : its ideology and basic problems (1954) (9)
3. The Historical Development in Islām of the Concept of Islām as an Historical Development (1981) (7)
Methodological issues in religious studies (1975) (6)
THE MODERN WEST IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGION (1984) (6)
Religious diversity : essays (1976) (6)
Belief: a Reply To a Response (1980) (5)
The world's religious traditions : current perspectives in religious studies : essays in honour of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1984) (5)
16. Is the Qur’ān the Word of God? (1981) (5)
Christian - Muslim relations: the theological dimension (1991) (4)
Pakistan as an Islamic State. Preliminary Draft (1955) (4)
Studies in Islam (1964) (4)
Survey of International Affairs, 1939-46: The Middle East in the War (1954) (4)
Thoughts on Transcendence (1990) (3)
Participation: The Changing Christian Role in Other Cultures (1969) (2)
Interpreting religious interrelations: An historian's view of Christian and Muslim (1977) (2)
The Islamic Near East: Intellectual Role of Librarianship [with Disussion] (1965) (2)
Response to Robert E. Florida (1990) (2)
6. Faith, in the Qur’ān; and its Relation to Belief (1981) (2)
Islam: Muḫammad and His Religion@@@Islam: Muhammad and His Religion (1960) (2)
Muslim—Christian relations: questions of a comparative religionist (1987) (2)
13. Some Similarities and Some Differences Between Christianity and Islām (1981) (1)
1. Islamic History as a Concept (1981) (1)
Islam in modern history / Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1959) (1)
Ambiguities of Understanding@@@On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies (1986) (1)
Constance E. Padwick: Muslim devotions: a study of prayer-manuals in common use . xxix, 313 pp. London: S.P.C.K., 1961. 35s. (1962) (1)
10. The ʿUlamā̕ in Indian Politics (1981) (1)
Programme Notes for a Mitigated Cacophony (1973) (1)
The Finger That Points to the Moon", reply to Per Kværne (1973) (1)
Book Review: Survey of International Affairs, 1939–46: The Middle East in the War (1954) (1)
On Mistranslated Booktitles (1984) (1)
The Call of the Minaret. Kenneth Cragg (1957) (0)
Book Review:Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Changing Religions in a Changing World R. J. Werblowsky (1978) (0)
Faith and Belief@@@Belief and History (1980) (0)
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY (1969) (0)
5. Islamic Law: Sharīʿah and Sharʿ (1981) (0)
PH.D. Dissertations (1973) (0)
Islam dalam sedjarah modern (1964) (0)
Early Church History (1950) (0)
Scripture : issues as seen by a comparative religionist (1985) (0)
The Religion of Java. Clifford Geertz (1963) (0)
Reynold A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism . (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979). Pp. 266, indexes. Hardcover, £13·50; paperback, £4·95. (1981) (0)
14. Muslim–Christian Interrelations Historically: An Interpretation (1981) (0)
God and the Religions: New Turns in the Debate or Reviving Disputation Right and Wrong Ways to Think about Other Religions (2005) (0)
9. The Crystallization of Religious Communities in Mughul India (1981) (0)
Book Review: The Intra-Religious Dialogue (1981) (0)
Publications of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1981) (0)
Book Review:Beyond Ideology: Religion and the Future of Western Civilization Ninian Smart (1984) (0)
General Editor’s Preface (1981) (0)
Political Thought in Mediaeval Islam: An Introductory Outline , by Erwin I. J. Rosenthal (Cambridge: At the University Press [Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited], 1958, pp. xii, 324, $6.75). (1959) (0)
Islam in Modern History.@@@Islam Inflamed: A Middle East Picture. (1958) (0)
8. Faith, in Later Islamic History; the Meaning of Arkān (1981) (0)
2. The Shahādah as Symbolic Representation of Muslims’ Faith (1981) (0)
15. Muslim and Christian: Faith Convergence, Belief Divergence (1981) (0)
Book Review: Images of Eternity (1988) (0)
Book Review:Types of Religious Experience, Christian and Non-Christian Joachim Wach (1953) (0)
Cantwell The Faith of Other Men. (1963) (0)
4. Islamic Law: Its ‘Sources’ (Uṣūl al-fiqh) and Ijtihād (1981) (0)
MODERN ISLAM IN INDIA ED.2ND (1946) (0)
11: Aligarh and Religion: A Question (1981) (0)
Book Review: Commonwealth of Nations: India as a Secular State (1964) (0)
Books received / Livres reçus (1967) (0)
7. Faith, in Later Islamic History; the Meaning of Taṣdīq (1981) (0)
Book Review: Asia: The Concept of the Secular State and India (1966) (0)
12. Religious Diversity: Muslim–Hindū Relations in India (1981) (0)
Islam in the Modern World (1957) (0)
Modernisation of a traditional society (1965) (0)
Parody not poetry (2002) (0)
Pakistan as an Islamic state : preliminary draft / Wilfred C. Smith (1951) (0)

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