Essay
হজরত মোহাম্মদের জীবনচরিত ও ধর্মনীতি
Not translated into English
Sheikh Abdur Rahim · 1888
Synopsis
A life of the Prophet of Islam, followed by an account of the principles of his religion, written in Bengali for the Muslims of Bengal. The author tells the life of Muhammad and shows what Islam brought to human civilisation, in the spirit that animates all his books: to awaken through writing a Muslim society that he considers to have fallen behind.
Context
The first book by its author, the work opened a long series of books on Islam in Bengali: Islamtattva in 1896, a treatise on prayer in 1898, another on the pilgrimage in 1903, up to a collection of sermons in 1932. Rahim held, and wrote in an essay, that the Muslim society of Bengal had to educate itself in its own language; he belonged to the Sudhakar group, which published religious treatises in Bengali for the Muslims of Calcutta.
Who it is for
A work of religious instruction, written in the Bengali prose of the late nineteenth century.
Prizes and reception
The work by which its author is first cited, at the head of a body of work wholly devoted to Islam.