Avcı, BetülAvcı Sebetci, Betülİslami İlimler Fakültesi, Temel İslam Bilimleri Bölümü2022-01-282022-01-282021Avcı, B. (2021). Abd al-Ahad Dawud. D. Thomas, J. Chesworth (Ed.), Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History Volume 18. The Ottoman Empire (1800-1914) içinde (228-235. ss.). Leiden: Brill.97890044602709789004448094https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/1695Biography: Originally named David Benjamin Keldani, this convert to İslam was a for- mer Roman Catholic priest of the Uniate-Chaldean Church. When he con- verted he adopted the name Abd al-Ahad (Servant of the One). According to a short biography that appeared in the Islamic Reviev in 1929, David Benjamin was bom in 1867 in Urmia, Iran. He received his early educa- tion in his home town. Between 1886 and 1889, he served among the teaching staff of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s mission to the Assyrian (Nestorian) Christians in Urmia. In 1892, he was sent to Rome by Cardinal Vaughan for further training in philosophy and theology at the Pontificio Collegio Urbano and was ordained priest in 1895. The same year, he joined the French Lazarist Mission at Urmia (Anonymous, 'Short biographical sketch’, p. 76). In a letter dated 14 February 1900, signed as David Benjamin, Archpriest of Urmia, he asks for money for a chapel to be built in Digala, follovved by a thank-you letter dated 2 July 1900 for the money raised. The letters were published in The Tablet in March and July 1900. However, as reported in his biography, he left the priesthood in 1900 and served in the Persian Service of Posts and Customs, and later as teacher and translator for Crown Prince Muhammad Ali Mirza...eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessAbd al-Ahad DawudChristian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 18. The Ottoman Empire (1800-1914)Book Chapter228235