Guy Le Strange
Guy Le Strange(24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) was a BritishOrientalistnoted especially for his work in the field of thehistorical geographyof the pre-modernMiddle Easternand Eastern Islamic lands, and his editing of Persian geographical texts.[1]He was a scholar of thePersian,Arabic,andSpanishlanguages.
Le Strange was one of the original trustees of theE. J. W. GibbMemorial, an organisation which since 1905 has published theGibb Memorial Series.
He was born inBrussels,Belgium,[2]the youngest child ofHenry L'Estrange Styleman Le StrangeofHunstanton Hall,Norfolk,educated atClifton College[3]and died inCambridge.[4]
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Schumacher, Gottlieb;Oliphant, Laurence;Le Strange, Guy(1889).Across the Jordan; being an exploration and survey of part of Hauran and Jaulan.London: Watt.
- Le Strange, Guy (1890).Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500.London: Committee of thePalestine Exploration Fund.OCLC1004386.
- Le Strange, Guy (1900).Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources.Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Le Strange, Guy (1922).Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources(2 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Le Strange, Guy (1903).Mesopotamia and Persia under the Mongols, in the fourteenth century A.D. From the Nuzhat-al-Ḳulūb of Ḥamd-Allah Mustawfī.London: Royal Asiatic Society.OCLC5235794.
- Le Strange, Guy (1905).The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur.New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc.OCLC1044046.+Index
Articles
[edit]- Ibn al-Furat;Le Strange(1900)."The Death of the Last Abbasid Caliph, from the Vatican MS. of Ibn al-Furat".Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.32:293–300.
References
[edit]- ^Bosworth, C. Edmund(28 March 2014)."Le Strange, Guy".Encyclopædia Iranica.Retrieved9 July2014.
- ^Norfolk Record Office – le Strange Papers Ref: NC 22.
- ^J. A. O. Muirhead,Clifton College Register, 1862 to 1947,Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith (for the Old Cliftonian Society), 1948, p. 383.
- ^Probate Registry Grant – Feb 1934.
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