Background
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus was born on April 12, 1867 in Vriesland, Michigan, United States. Son of Adrian and Katharina (Boon) Zwemer.
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus was born on April 12, 1867 in Vriesland, Michigan, United States. Son of Adrian and Katharina (Boon) Zwemer.
Bachelor of Arts, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1887, Master of Arts, 1890. New Brunswick (New Jersey) Theological Seminary, 1890. Doctor of Divinity, Hope, 1904, Rutgers, 1919.
Doctor of Laws, Muskingum College, 1918.
Ordained clergyman, Reformed Church in America, 1890.
Missionary at various stations in Arabia, 1891-1912, and at Cairo, Egypt, 1913-1929. Has traveled extensively. Crossed Oman Peninsula.
Visited Sanaa in Yemen twice, during Arab rebellion, 1892, 1904.
Visited Hofhoff in Hassa, East Arabia, twice, et cetera Chairman and organizer Mohammedan Missionary Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1906.
Now professor of the history of religion and Christian missions, Princeton Theological Seminary Editor of the Moslem World (quarterly review), New York City. President American Christian Literature Society for Moslems.
Author: Arabia, the Cradle of Islam, 1902.
Topsy Turvy Land (with Mistress Amy East. Zwemer), 1902. Raymund Lull, 1904; Moslem Doctrine of God, 1906. Islam—A challenge to Faith.
The Moslem World, 1907.
The Moslem Christ, 1911. The Unoccupied Mission Fields, 1910.
Zigzag Journeys in the Camel Country, 1912. Childhood in Moslem World, 1915.
Mohammed or Christ, 1915.
The Disintegration of Islam, 1917. Influence of Animism on Islam, 1920. A Moslem Seeker After God, 1920.
Christianity the Final Religion, 1921.
Call to Prayer, 1923. The Law of Apostasy in Islam, 1924.
Across the World of Islam, 1928. The Glory of the Cross, 1928.
Thinking Missions with Christ, 1933.
The Origin of Religion, 1935.
Fellow Royal Geography Society, Victoria Institute. Member Royal Asiatic Society.
Married Bagdad, Arabia, Amy East. Wilkes, May 18, 1896. Children: Nellie Elizabeth (Mistress Claude L. Pickens, Junior.