British orientalist scholar
John Davenport (8 June 1789 – 1877) was a British orientalist and writer. He is best known for his book An Apology for Mohammed and the Koran .[1] [2]
He was born on 8 June 1789, in London. His father was from Staffordshire . Like his father, Davenport was a liveryman. He lost his sight in his later life.[3]
Joscelyn Godwin describes him as "a poor scrivener who led a precarious existence teaching Oriental languages and writing hack literature ".[4] Davenport is known for writing some books which deal with erotic subjects.[5] [6] [7] [8]
His book An Apology for Mohammed and the Koran has been translated into several different languages.[9] [10]
^ "John Davenport (Davenport, John, 1789-1877) | The Online Books Page" . onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu .
^ "Nabi Muhammad Saw dalam Pandangan Orientalis (20)" . Pars Today (in Indonesian). 23 November 2020.
^ Ashbee, Henry Spencer (April 2007). Bibliography of Forbidden Books - . Cosimo, Inc. ISBN 978-1-60206-297-9 .
^ Godwin, Joscelyn (January 1994). Theosophical Enlightenment . SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2152-9 .
^ "A CRITICAL STUDY OF JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN AND THE SLANG DICTIONARY" (PDF) .
^ Bull, Sarah (2017). "Reading, Writing, and Publishing an Obscene Canon: The Archival Logic of the Secret Museum, c. 1860–c. 1900" . Book History . 20 (1): 226–257. doi :10.1353/bh.2017.0007 . PMC 5989922 . PMID 29888742 .
^ Bibliography of the History of Medicine . U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Library of Medicine.
^ Deveney, John Patrick (January 1997). Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician . SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-3119-1 .
^ "ULUSLARARASI TÜRK DÜNYASININ İSLAMİYETE KATKILARI SEMPOZYUMU" (PDF) .
^ "Prophet Muhammad - A Rarest Genius of the World" . IslamiGems . 13 July 2020.
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