J. Spencer Trimingham

John Spencer Trimingham (born November 17, 1904 , † March 6, 1987 ) was a British scholar and Christian missionary who worked on Islam and Christianity . He was a professor at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut . His main topics are Islam in Africa and Sufism . A classic work is considered to be about the Sufi orders ( The Sufi Orders in Islam , 1971).

Publications (selection)

• Sudan colloquial Arabic . 2nd. rev. ed., London, 1946
• The Christian approach to Islam in the Sudan . London, Oxford University Press, 1948
• Islam in the Sudan . London, Oxford University Press, 1949 digitized
• Islam in Ethiopia . London, Oxford University Press, 1952
• Islam in West Africa . Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959
• A History of Islam in West Africa . London, Oxford University Press, 1964
• Islam in East Africa . Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964. (Repr. New York, 1980: ISBN 0836992709 )
• The Influence of Islam upon Africa . London, Longmans, 1968
• The Sufi Orders in Islam . Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971. ISBN 0198265247 (Repr. 1998: ISBN 0-19-512058-2 ) Digitized
• Two worlds are ours. A study of time and eternity in relation to the Christian Gospel freed from the tyranny of the Old Testament reference . Beirut, Librairie du Liban, 1971
• Christianity among the Arabs in pre-Islamic times . London, Longman, 1979. ISBN 0582780810