A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees: A Century of Oriental Scholarship
Charles Melville, "A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees: A Century of Oriental Scholarship"
English | ISBN: 1399516256 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1399516256 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.
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