Ram Swarup (राम स्वरूप) (1920 - December 26, 1998) was an influential ideologue for the Hindutvamovement. He is known for his strong stances against Islam and Christianity. 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Hindutva (Hinduness, a word coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? ) is used to describe movements advocating Hindu nationalism. ...
He authored many essays and books including The Word as Revelation: Names of God. He books also include critiques of communism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Works
The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods (1980), (1982, revised 1992)
Hindu view of Christianity and Islam
Understanding Islam through Hadis (1983 in the USA by Arvind Ghosh, Houston; Indian reprint by Voice of India, 1984); The Hindi translation was banned in 1990.
Noted Indian writer and polymath RamSwarup explores the meaning of Islam through the words of the Sahih Muslim, considered by Muslims to be one of the most authoritative of the collections of "traditions" (Arabic Hadith) about the life of the Prophet Muhammad.
As Swarup notes in his introduction, to Muslims the Hadith literature represents the Koran in action, stories of "revelation made concrete in the life of the Prophet." Among the orthodox they are considered as sacred as the Koran itself.
RamSwarup was one of India's leading intellectuals and a distinguished representative of renascent Hinduism.
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