S. H. Leeder

Simon Henry Leeder (1865 – 14 May 1930) was a British author. He is best known for work, Modern Sons of the Pharaohs, discussing the Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt.^[1]

S.H. Leeder in 1918.

Biography

Leeder was born in Deptford, London, in 1865, to Simon and Elizabeth Leeder.^[2]

Modern Sons of the Pharaohs

Modern Sons of the Pharaohs is a study of Egypt's Coptic Christians, their religious rites and their relationship with Muslims.^[3][4] The author analyses Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt prior to the 1919 Revolution for independence from the British and believes the British occupation has ruined the relationship between Muslims and Copts in Egypt.^[5] The book was written after the author lived in Egypt and visited several Coptic families in the Delta and Upper Egypt. The work was published in English in 1918, translated into Arabic by Ahmad Mahmūd and published in 2008 by Dar al-Shuruq in Egypt.

Other works

• The Desert Gateway, Biskra and Thereabouts (1910)^[6]
• Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam (1912)^[7]

References

1. Joseph J. Williams (1999). Hebrewisms of West Africa: From the Nile to Niger with the Jews. Black Classic Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-1-58073-003-7.
2. 1881 England Census
3. Bolman, Elizabeth; Branham, Joan; Constas, Nicholas; Hall, Marcia (2006). Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West. Dumbarton Oaks. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-88402-311-1.
4. Hala Halim (19 August 2013). Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive. Oxford University Press. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-8232-5228-2.
5. Al-Musawar Magazine, 23 May 2008 in Arab-West Report, 2008, week 21, art. 11
6. S. H. Leeder (1912). The Desert Gateway: Biskra and Thereabouts. Cassell, Limited. ISBN 978-0-659-91364-7.
7. The Bookman. Hodder and Stoughton. 1913. p. 1.

External links

• Media related to S. H. Leeder at Wikimedia Commons