The reported Tokyo congress of religions (1907)

Name: The reported Tokyo congress of religions (1907)
Start: 1907

مؤتمر الأديان المزعوم في طوكيو

1907 CE · 1325 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

In 1907 the newspaper al-Waqt, published in Turkestan, reported that Japan would host a congress of religions in Tokyo. Al-Liwa proposed Muhammad Farid Wajdi and Shaykh Tantawi Jawhari as Egypt's delegates. The book says the congress did not exist when the messages arrived. Its author's account only; no second source yet.

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In 1907 the Turkestan journal al-Waqt reported Japan's intent to hold a congress of religions in Tokyo; the newspaper al-Liwa' nominated Muhammad Farid Wajdi and Shaykh Tantawi Jawhari as Egypt's delegates, and Wajdi prepared his French treatise Ambassador of Islam — only for it to emerge that the congress did not exist ¹². The book notes the idea materialized some thirty years later, when Shaykh Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi's letter was read at it.

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Safir al-Islam ila Sa'ir al-Aqwam (The Ambassador of Islam to All Peoples) — Muhammad Farid Wajdi , p. 19
Safir al-Islam ila Sa'ir al-Aqwam (The Ambassador of Islam to All Peoples) — Muhammad Farid Wajdi , p. 20

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islam.museum contributors. “The reported Tokyo congress of religions (1907)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/tokyo-religions-congress-1907/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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