Karl Gottlieb Pfander (1803–1865), spelt also as Carl Gottlieb Pfander or C.G. Pfander, was a Basel Mission missionary in Central Asia and Trans-Caucasus, and the Church Missionary Society polemicist to North-Western Provinces -- later became Agra Province - present Agra in Uttar Pradesh -- North India. He was renowned for using controversy to win Muslims for Christ and top of all the missionaries of his day as the Christian champion against Islam -- used his entire life in the effort to convert Mohammedans.
He authored Mizan al-Haqq(The balance of truth), an apologetic, Remarks on the nature of Muhammedanism, and more.
Read more about Karl Gottlieb Pfander: Legacy, William Muir Writes, Bibliography
Famous quotes containing the word karl:
“The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)