Category

British Arabists

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Richard Francis Burton

British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)

Edward William Lane

British orientalist, translator, lexicographer and peace maker (1801–1876)

Wilfred Thesiger

British explorer, military officer, writer and botanical collector (1910-2003)

English Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer (1885–1960)

Stanley Lane-Poole

British orientalist and archaeologist (1854–1931)

Reynold A. Nicholson

British orientalist (1868–1945)

Arthur John Arberry

British scholar of Middle East Studies (1905–1969)

English scholar and Orientalist (1854–1933)

Alfred Guillaume

British Hebrew and Islamic scholar (1888–1965)

British Arabist (1876–1952)

British translator

Lawrence Conrad

British historian

Henry George Farmer

British musicologist and Arabist (1882–1965)

Hartwig Hirschfeld

Prussian-born British Orientalist and educator (1854–1934)

Francis Joseph Steingass

British linguist (1825–1903)

Arthur Stanley Tritton

British historian

Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic

title used at Cambridge University