Abstract This article analyses the construction of religious origin myths for Islam within ‘universal religion’ and esoteric frameworks in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Asia and beyond, and sheds light on the role of ‘Western’ and Anglo-Indian converts in this process. At its core is a case study of the elusive Hamid Snow, founder of the so-called ‘Church of Islam’ in 1891...
The Yogi and the mystic: studies in indian and comparative mysticism. Edited by Karel Werner. (Durham Indological Series 1.) pp. xv, 192. London, Curzon Press; Riverdale, Maryland, The Riverdale Company, 1989., £13.50. - Volume 1 Issue 2