Arthur John Arberry

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Arthur John Arberry (born May 12, 1905 in Portsmouth ; died October 2, 1969 in Cambridge ) was a versatile British orientalist who developed a productive research activity in the languages Arabic , Persian and Islamic studies .

Live and act

Arthur John Arberry was born in Portsmouth in 1905. He received his education at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College , Cambridge . His translation of the Koran into English, The Koran Interpreted (interpreted the Quran), is one of the most prominent written by a non-Muslim scholars translations of the Koran , which also university-wide recognition has found. He was a student of Reynold A. Nicholson and dealt like him with Islamic mysticism and opened up various key texts of Sufism for the English-speaking reader, in particular the poet Rumi . He also dealt with cataloging the holdings of various libraries (Library of the India Office , Chester Beatty Library ). He taught at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. Arberry had been a member of the British Academy since 1949 . He died in Cambridge in October 1969.

Publications (selection)

  • Translations of works by Muhammad Iqbal :
    The Secrets of Selflessness (The Secrets of the Self)
    Javid Nama (The Book of Eternity) (included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works )
  • The Koran Interpreted ( text at Archive.org , with numbered verses )
  • Muslim Saints and Mystics , A translation of episodes from the ' Tazkirat al-Awliya ' (Memorial of the Saints) originally written by Farid al-Din Attar .
  • The Book of Truthfulness (Kitab al-Sidq) by Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz. Arabic text, edited and translated by AJ Arberry. 1937. ( online )
  • The Seven Odes
  • An Introduction to the History of Sufism. The Sir Abdullah Suhrawardy Lectures for 1942 by Arthur J. Arberry.
  • Omar Khayyam . A New Version based upon Recent Discoveries. London, John Murray, 1952
  • Moorish Poetry: A Translation of ' The Pennants ', an Anthology Compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Sa'id , trans. by AJ Arberry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953),
  • Mystical Poems of Rumi , Translated by AJ Arberry, (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
  • Oriental essays. Portraits of Seven Scholars. Allen & Unwin, London, 1960 (with portraits of Simon Ockley, William Jones , EW Lane , EH Palmer , EG Browne , RA Nicholson and a short autobiography)
  • Dun Karm , poet of Malta . Texts chosen and translated by AJ Arberry; introduction, notes and glossary by P. Grech. Cambridge University Press 1961.
  • Sufism. An Account of the Mystics of Islam. London, George Allen & Unwin., 1969
  • Fifty Poems of Hafiz. University Press, Cambridge, 1970

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Khaleel Mohammed, “  Assessing English Translations of the Qur'an  ”, Middle East Quarterly, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Arberry, Arthur John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British orientalist, Koran translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1969
Place of death Cambridge