The Edward J. Jurji Manuscript Collection Collection Summary Creator: Jurji, Edward Jabra, 1907- Dates: 1939-1980 Extent: 11 boxes(11.9 linear feet) Language(s): English, Arabic Repository: Princeton Theological Seminary Libraries. Special Collections. Chronology 1907 March 27 Born, Latakia, Syria 1928 Graduated, American University, Beirut, Lebanon 1928-1930 Instructor, Department of Education, Mosul and Baghdad, Iraq 1930-1933 Teacher, American School, Baghdad 1933-1934 Student, Master of Arts, Princeton University 1934-1936 Student, Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University 1936-1938 Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 1939-1942 Student, Bachelor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary 1941 May 13 Ordained, Presbytery of New Brunswick 1942-1977 Instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, history of religion, Princeton Theological Seminary 1977-1990 Professor emeritus, history of religion, Princeton Theological Seminary 1990 July 9 Died, Jamesburg, New Jersey
Scope and Content This collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, lecture notes, articles, addresses, manuscripts for published works, sermons, and miscellanea. Subjects Jurji, Edward Jabra, 1907---Manuscripts. Princeton Theological Seminary. Library. Manuscript collections. Administrative Information Processing Information This collection was processed, and the original finding aid was written in March of 1996, by Douglas Denné under the direction of William O. Harris, Archivist. The finding aid was edited by Sarah Seraphin and Daved Anthony Schmidt in May of 2009. Access There are no special restrictions to the access of this collection. It may be examined by library patrons under the normal rules and conditions of Special Collections. Use of Materials The following is the acceptable citation for publication: The Edward J. Jurji Manuscript Collection. Special Collections, Princeton Theological Seminary Library. Contents Box 1 - Biographical Material - Correspondence, folders 1-18 1951-1961
Box 2 - Correspondence, folders 19-38 1961-1980 Box 3 - Correspondence, 39-42 1979-1983 - Mackay Correspondence 1941-1958 - McCord Correspondence 1962-1967 - Miscellaneous Correspondence (various dates) -Institute for Advanced Study 1936-1938 -Articles -Review Committee Material 1975 -Princeton Seminary (TH.B 1939-1942) -Correspondence - St. Lawrence University 1939 -Old Testament History and Introductory Course 1940 -Princeton Seminary Faculty Member 1942-1977 -Grades (2 folders) -Course material 2351: Zion Missions in Today's World (2 folders) -Course material 2353: History of Religions: Lecture Notes (in Box) (2 folders) -Faculty Business -Department of History -Reserve book lists (2 folders) -Faculty Library Committee -Seminary Correspondence and Business -"Extra" Seminary Business -Offers 1944-1950 -ACLS: American Council of Learned Society Grant Proposal 1963 -National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellowships 1974-1975 -The Church Peace Union Material 1955-1958 -University of Delhi correspondence 1967 -Center for the Study of World Religion materials 1968-1983
Box 4 - Teaching experience outside Princeton Seminary -Oneonta 1949-1950 -Correspondence with Presbyterian Church to supply preacher -Correspondence with State Teacher's College to lecture -Fulbright material 1960 -Fulbright Programs in Indian and correspondence -Report to the President -Miscellaneous materials -Lectures and Addresses -Near East Broadcast, Office of War Information 1943 -University of Life, Program, Department of Commerce, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1946 -Lectures during trip to Middle East 1950 -Lecture, Middlebury College Conference, Middlebury, Vermont "How can the people outside the Iron Curtain achieve unity and understanding?" 1953 -Lecture on the Bible, Inter-denominational Young People's Conference, Pocono Plateau, Cresto, Pennsylvania 1953 -Pearson and Easton, Inc. contracts for lectures 1955-1966 -Town Hall lecture on Middle-East Crisis, Princeton 1956 -"Vital Forces of Religion in the Modern World" Princeton Adult School 1957 -"Protestantism and Catholicism," Princeton School of Zion Life and Leadership 1958 -"Faith, Religion, and Ethics," National War College, Washington, DC 1959 -"Christianity and the Middle East," Haskell Lectures, Oberlin College 1960 -"An Encounter with Modern India," The Twentieth Century Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1961 -"Responsibility of Christianity in a Revolutionary Age," Adult School of Religion, Red Bank, New Jersey 1963
Box 5 -"The Meaning of Responsibility in a Revolutionary Age," The Orr Forum in Religion, Wilson College 1964 -"The Great Religion of the Middle East," The Arab and American Women's Friendship Association, Inc., New York, New York 1977 -Major Conferences -Sesquicentennial Celebration, Princeton Seminary 1963 Correspondence with Kenneth W. Thompson Sesquicentennial History Department Conference General Material General Correspondence Records -Galahue Conference, Princeton Seminary on the Phenomenon of Conveyance and the course of Prejudice 1964 - Galahue I continued Box 6 Correspondence, papers, business and expense reports -Galahue II on Religious Pluralism and World Community 1966 -Correspondence, personnel, advisory committee, McCord correspondence, publications, budget, position papers - Galahue II continued Box 7 -XII Congress of IAHR (International Association for the History of Religion) Stockholm, Sweden 1970 -Paper, expenses, correspondence -Spiritual Summit Conference. The Temple of Understanding, Inc., Washington, DC 1970 -Correspondence, etc. -Princeton Conference on World Religion 1971 -The 5th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences "The Search for Absolute Values" Washington, DC 1976 - Research Notes and Papers
-Islamic Mysticism -Arabic - Spreading Christianity -Islam -Islamic -Mohamedism -"Vital Issues behind Uneasy Truces" (paper) -"Political Power and Sovereignty in Islam" (paper) -Islam Centennial Fourteen (informational packet) - Other Issues -1967 Crisis in Near East 1967 -Iran -East Asia -Judaism -Bible -Excerpts I -Excerpts III -Religious metamorphoses - Articles and Reviews -"Illumination in Islamic Mysticism" 1938 -"Islamic how in Operation" 1940 -Islamic Phil Proposal to Princeton University Press 1945 -"On the Church" circa 1940 -"The Genius of Arabic Literature" 1946 -"Modern Arabic Literature" 1946 -Cyclopedia History of Literature correspondence 1946 -Great Religions of the Modern World correspondence 1947 -Great Religions of the Modern World royalties 1947 -Great Religions of the Modern World responses 1947 -Great Religions of the Modern World revision blueprint 1947 - Articles and Reviews by Edward J. Jurgi (added to collection) 08/06/80 -"The 'Alids of North Syria"
Box 8 -Illumination- a Sufi Doctrine" -"Islamic Law in Operation" -"Islamic Setting in the History of Religions" -"The Israqi Revival of Al-Suhrawardi" -Review of "Churches and States: the Religious Institution and Modernization" -Review of "Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadkihrat al- Auliya" - Saudi Arabia 1947 -"Principles Common to Islam and Other Religions" 1947 -Collier's Encyclopedia 1948 -History of the Arabs 1949-1951 -"One Church: On Church Unity" 1950 -Encyclopedia Americana 1950 -"The Impact of Christianity upon the Middle East" 1950 -Arabic Literature 1951 -"The World through Literature" 1951 -Zion Interpretation of Religion Publication 1952 -Zion Interpretation of Religion MacMillan correspondence 1952 -Zion Interpretation of Religion Royalties 1952 -Reviews -"Christianity and the non-zion Religions" 1955 -"The Great Religions and International Affairs 1955 -The Middle East: its Religion and Culture correspondence 1956 -The Middle East: its Religion and Culture manuscript and typed paper 1956 -The Middle East: its Religion and Culture royalties 1956 -The Middle East: its Religion and Culture reviews 1956 -Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia 1957 -The Ecumenical Era in Church and State correspondence 1959 -The Ecumenical Era in Church and State Royalties 1959
Box 9 -Prentice-Hall History of Religion prospectus 1962 -"The Phenomenon of Hinduism" 1962 -The Phenomenology of Religion manuscript 1963 -The Phenomenology of Religion correspondence 1963 -The Phenomenology of Religion royalties 1963 -The Phenomenology of Religion reviews 1963 -American College Dictionary Project 1966 -"Religious Convergence and the Course of Prejudice" 1969 -Great Religions of the World 1971 -..."And Mohammed Is His Prophet" 1971 -"The Synthesizing Potential of Religion" 1971 -"Arabic Islamic Belief and Practice: An Essay on Religion - Political Transition and Transformation" 1974 - "Mysticism and the Wisdom of the Ages" 1974 -Correspondence - Deepening of the Zion Experience -Manuscript -Early version -Revised text 1979 - "Secular Means and Mystical Ends" manuscript undated - "A Synthesizing Mystical Potential" manuscript undated - "The Cry Out of the Depths" manuscript undated - Early version: Islam and Muslims in the History of Religion manuscript 1968 Box 10 - Later version: Islam and Muslims on the World Stage manuscript -Later version: Islam and Muslims on the World State. 2 manuscript copies -Later version: A Preface to Islam: A Primer for Americans, manuscript 1977 -Miscellaneous articles, 1 box undated
-Articles on lecture notes 4 folders and 1 binder undated -Reviews (7 folders) -Sermon materials and ministerial materials -Trial for Licensure -Presbytery of New York City -Church Organization -Dedications Box 11 - Sermons -Lectures, sermons, and other papers -Religious experiences through sermons -"Flowering" -Sermons (50-51) -Sermons (3 folders) -4th Avenue Sermons -Hopewell Sermons I -Hopewell Sermons II -Princeton Seminary Chapel - Miscellaneous -Maynard Clark Film Proposal on the Arab World 1976 -Berlitz 1981 -Thesis, students -Unidentified materials -"Layla Jurji file," Wells College