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Sir William Muir, KCSI was a Scottish Orientalist, scholar of Islam, and colonial administrator, serving as Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Provinces of India.

✵ 27. April 1819 – 11. July 1905
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William Muir Quotes

“The sword of Mahomet and the Coran are the most fatal enemies of civilization, liberty, and truth which the world has yet known.”

William Muir

Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV (1861), p. 322 https://archive.org/stream/lifemahomet00muirgoog/lifemahomet00muirgoog#page/n342/mode/1up

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