Theodore R. W. Lunt

Theodore R. W. Lunt, also identified in library records as Theodore Robert Woosnam Lunt, was born in 1878 and died in 1951. He is remembered chiefly for The Story of Islam, a concise historical introduction first published in the early 1900s and revised through later editions.

The book itself gives a helpful glimpse of his career: Lunt is described there as General Secretary of the National Laymen's Missionary Movement and formerly Educational Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. That background helps explain the tone of his writing, which aims to present the history and development of Islam to a broad English-speaking readership.

Although only a small amount of biographical detail was easy to confirm, his surviving work shows a writer interested in religion, history, and international questions. Other books associated with him include The Quest of Nations, suggesting a wider concern with world affairs as well as faith.