{"id":1129,"date":"2017-05-10T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2017-04-01T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T21:02:10","slug":"afghan-frontier-theodore-pennell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/afghan-frontier-theodore-pennell\/","title":{"rendered":"Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier with Theodore Pennell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheodoreTheodore Leighton Pennell [1867-1912] was a medical missionary to the North West Frontier of what is today Pakistan. Writing in the The Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions<\/em> C.H. Grundmann notes:<\/p>\n

Pennell’s fame was due not only to his medical skills and daring itinerations, mostly on bicycle and always moving unarmed amongst the heavily armed Muslim peoples of the mountains – but to his irenic missionary existence, of which he gave account in his widely read Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier<\/em> (1909). He adopted the Afghan ways of dress, food, and habits; ran a school; and operated a small printing press, from which he issued a newspaper in vernacular Pushtu. [p.525]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My thanks to Redcliffe College<\/a> for providing a copy of this book to scan. This title is in the public domain.<\/p>\n

Theodore Leighton Pennell [1867-1912], Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier. A Record of Sixteen Years Close Intercourse With the Natives of the Indian Marches<\/em>, 5th edn. London: Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd., 1913. Hbk. pp.324. [Download complete book in PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n

Contents<\/h3>\n
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  • Introduction<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Prefaces<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    1. The Afghan Character<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. Afghan Traditions<\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. Border Warriors<\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. A Frontier Valley<\/strong><\/li>\n
    5. The Christian’s Revenge<\/strong><\/li>\n
    6. A Day in the Wards<\/strong><\/li>\n
    7. From Morning to Night<\/strong><\/li>\n
    8. The Itinerant Missionary<\/strong><\/li>\n
    9. Afghan Mullahs<\/strong><\/li>\n
    10. A Tale of a Talib<\/strong><\/li>\n
    11. School-Work<\/strong><\/li>\n
    12. An Afghan Football Team<\/strong><\/li>\n
    13. ‘Alum Gul’s Choice<\/strong><\/li>\n
    14. ‘Alum Gul’s Choice<\/strong> (Continued)<\/li>\n
    15. Afghan Women<\/strong><\/li>\n
    16. The Story of a Convert<\/strong><\/li>\n
    17. The Hindu Ascetics<\/strong><\/li>\n
    18. Sadhus and Faqirs<\/strong><\/li>\n
    19. My Life as a Mendicant<\/strong><\/li>\n
    20. A Frontier Episode<\/strong><\/li>\n
    21. Frontier Campaigning<\/strong><\/li>\n
    22. Chikki, The Freebooter<\/strong><\/li>\n
    23. Rough Diamonds<\/strong><\/li>\n
    24. Deductions<\/strong><\/li>\n
    25. A Forward Policy<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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