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Finding Guide by Tony Gardner

34 ms boxes; 21 linear ft.

Call Number: BL27.S45 1940z

Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000) was the foremost Canadian scholar on Islam and comparative religion. He founded the Institute for Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal in 1951, helped establish the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, and the Department of Comparative Religion at Dalhousie University. His The Meaning and End of Religion (1963) was a groundbreaking study of the historical changes in the meaning of such words as religion, faith, and belief.

In 2000 he and his wife Muriel donated his personal library of over 500 books and research files and papers to California State University, Northridge. The books are part of the Library's circulating collection. The WC Smith papers consist of correspondence, off prints of journal articles, lecture notes, typescripts of papers presented at conferences, and pamphlets sent to him by former students and colleagues. Much of the material is on Islam, but also includes comparative religion, philosophy and one file on the Cantwell family. The occasional correspondence is with leading academic figures such as Marshall Hodgson. I have retained the original alphabetical arrangement followed by Professor Smith.

Box 1 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803529)

Box 2 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803537)

Box 3 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803545)

Box 4 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803552)

Box 5 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803560)

Box 6 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803578)

Box 7 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803586)

Box 8 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803594)

Box 9 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803602)

Box 10 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803610)

Box 11 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803628)

Box 12 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803636)

Box 13 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803644)

Box 14 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803651)

Box 15 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803669)

Box 16 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803677)

Box 17 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803685)

Box 18 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803693)

Box 19 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803701)

Box 20 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803719)

Box 21 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803727)

Box 22 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803735)

Box 23 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803743)

Box 24 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803750)

Box 25 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803768)

Box 26 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803776)

Box 27 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803784)

Box 28 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803792)

Box 29 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803800)

Box 30 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803818)

Box 31of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803826)

Box 32 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803834)

Box 33 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803842)

Box 34 of 34 (AS/RS 30700107803859)

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