Edward Sell (priest)

Canon Edward Sell (January 24, 1839 – February 15, 1932) was an Anglican orientalist, writer, and missionary in India. Quotes The Hadd, a punishment based on a Zahir, or obvious sentence of the Quran requires that a Muslim who apostatizes shall be put to death. In the case of an apostate woman Imam Abu Hanifa ruled that she should be imprisoned and beaten every day. The other three Imams, Malik, Shafai and Hanbal said that she should be put to death in accordance with the Tradition which says: He who changes his religion, kill." The Faith of Islam, London, 1880. quoted in Bhatnagar, V. S. (2020). Emperor Aurangzeb and Destruction of Temples, Conversions and Jizya : (a study largely based on his court bulletins or akhbārāt darbār muʻalla) External links Category:1839 births Category:1932 deaths Category:Orientalists Category:Missionaries Category:Clergy from England Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Non-fiction authors from England