David Samuel Margoliouth

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Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus (1907)
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus (1912)

David Samuel Margoliouth (born October 17, 1858 in London , † March 22, 1940 ibid) was a leading British orientalist . He was professor of Arabic at Oxford University from 1889 to 1937 . From 1896 he was married to the orientalist Jessie Payne Margoliouth , the daughter of his colleague Robert Payne Smith . In 1915 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy . Since 1932 he was a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Margoliouth is considered one of the pioneers of Islamic studies . He spent a long time in the Middle East . Some of his works have long been considered standard works in the English-speaking world.

His best-known quote about the Koran: "Researchers are unanimously of the opinion that the Koran stands in a prominent place among the greatest books of religion, although it is the newest of these books, ie the last one known to history. But it is the first who has the most influence on people and started a new human thought. And he founded a special fundamental moral school. "

Works

  • Mohammed and the Rise of Islam , 1905
  • Umayyads and Abbasids , 1907
  • Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus , 1907 and 1912 [1]
  • The Early Development of Mohammedanism , 1914 ( Hibbert Lectures 1913 digitized )
  • Yaqut's dictionary of learned men , 7 volumes, 1908-1927
  • The Kitab al-Ansab of al-Sam'ani , 1911
  • Mohammedanism , 1912
  • The table-talk of a Mesopotamian judge , 2 volumes, 1921-22
  • together with HF Amedroz : The Eclipse of the Abbasid Caliphate , 1922; it is a translation of the chronicle of Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Miskawaih
  • The Relations Between Arabs and Israelites Prior to the Rise of Islam , 1924

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Samuel Margoliouth in the Encyclopedia Britannica , accessed November 17, 2012
  2. ↑ Orbituary Notice in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) 72/04, July 1940, pp. 392-394
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  4. ^ Members of the SAW: David Samuel Margoliouth. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Margoliouth, David Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1940
Place of death London