A Critique of Professor Arnold G. Toynbee’s Understanding — Page 5
5 1. D. S. MARGOLIOUTH Margoliouth was an extremely prejudiced, hostile, and antagonistic orientalist opposed to Islam. In his book Mohammadanism, published in 1911, has made several allegations against the Holy Prophet. Nevertheless, he totally rejects the idea that upon arrivi ng in Madinah, the Holy Prophet no longer remained the preacher, and the prophet. Margoliouth writes: But amid all the duties of general, legislator, judge, and diplomat, the Prophet did not neglect those of a preacher and a teacher. ” (Muhammadanism) 2. SIR THOMAS ARNOLD Sir Thomas Arnold enjoys a special fame as an authority among the orientalists. Rejecting the criticism and faultfinding of Toynbee and his ilk, he writes in his book: The Preaching of Islam (1896): “It has been frequently asserted by European writers that from the date of Muhammad’s migration to Madinah, and from the altered circumstances of his life there, the Prophet appears in an entirely new character. He is no longer the preacher, the warner, th e apostle of God to men, whom he would persuade of the truth of the religion revealed to him, but now he appears rather as the unscrupulous bigot, using all means at his disposal of