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A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and Its Trustees: A Century of Oriental Scholarship

A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and Its Trustees: A Century of Oriental Scholarship

Melville, Charles

Hardcover

Series: Gibb Memorial Trust

General Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1399516256
ISBN13: 9781399516259
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Mar 13 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Gibb Memorial Trust, founded at the start of the 20th century, comprised among its trustees some of the most celebrated and prominent orientalists of their day. Together, they sponsored and supported research on editing and translating Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts on a range of subjects, from history, literature, geography and poetry to Sufism and the Islamic sciences. This volume covers the development of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies over the last 120 years or so, as seen through the biographies of the leading scholars of the period. It opens with a short history of the Trust, before presenting a series of short biographical and often personal appreciations of these eminent Middle Eastern scholars of the past, written by existing trustees. In providing a history of this important institution, the book shines a light on the history and development of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Britain more broadly.

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