Stanley Lane-Poole

Stanley Lane-Poole (born December 18, 1854 in London , England , † December 29, 1931 ) was a British orientalist and Egyptologist .

Stanley Lane-Poole was a nephew of the Orientalist Edward William Lane . From 1874 to 1892 he worked in the British Museum and then in Egypt. From 1897 to 1904 he was Professor of Arabic Studies at Dublin University .

His main work its true history of Egypt in the Middle Ages ( History of Egypt in the Middle Ages , 1901), which has been widely reprinted and in the history of Egypt ( A History of Egypt ) by William Matthew Flinders Petrie is included.

Publications (selection)

• Completion of the Arabic English Lexicon left unfinished by his uncle Edward William Lane .
• The Life of Edward William Lane (1877)
• The People of Turky (1878)
• Lane's Selection From the Kuran (1879)
• Egypt (1881)
• Le Korân, sa poésie et ses lois (1882; digitized version )
• Studies in a Mosque (Beirut 1883; digitized )
• Social Life in Egypt: A Description of the Country & Its People (1884)
• The Life of the late General FR Chesney (editor) (1885)
• The Story of the Moors in Spain (1886)
• Turkey (1888)
• The Barbary Corsairs (1890)
• The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad (1893)
• The Mohammedan Dynasties: Chronological and Genealogical Tables with Historical Introductions (1894)
• Babar (1899) Rulers of India
• History of Egypt in the Middle Ages (1901)
• Medieval India under Mohammedan Rule, AD 712-1764 (1903)
• Aurangzib (1908) Rulers of India

Web links

Commons : Studies in a Mosque  - collection of images, videos and audio files