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 | | A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 by C. Edmund Bosworth (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780197262436 ISBN-10: 0-19-726243-0 ISBN-13: 9780197262436 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-726243-6 Hardcover 2001-12-27 Oxford University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilizations of the East sympathetically. | ||
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Brief lives of thireen British scholars of the Orient A mixed set of thirteen retrospectives on British scholars of Asia and Africa, almost all fellows of the British Academy. Most of the articles were originally printed as 'appreciations' in the Academy's Proceedings. The biographical notices are a little uneven, and being written by collegues reasonably soon after their deaths tend naturally towards panagyrics. But on the whole they they are interesting portraits of scholars who were among the most inspiring to scholars of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Recommended, even if a bit pricey and a bit dry. Let's hope the biographers too get biographical recognition - I'd love to know more on the lives of Ullendorff, Bosworth and Houraini and the rest, especially while some are still about to continue to inspire us. The breakdown is as follows (tho' most worked in more than one field): Arabists A.F.L. Beeston (by E. Ullendorff); H.A.R. Gibb (by A. Houraini). Egyptologists: F.L. Griffith (by J.D. Ray); A.H. Gardiner (by J. Cerny). Hebraeists: S.R. Driver and G.R. Driver (both by J.A. Emerton). Indiologists: H.W. Bailey (by R.E. Emmerick); R.L. Turner (by R.H. Robbins). Persianists: E.G. Browne (by C.E. Bosworth). V.F. Minorsky (by C.E. Bosworth). Sinologists: Arthur Waley (by J.D. Spence). Turcologists: G. Clauson (by C.E. Bosworth); Malaysianists: R.O. Winstedt (by J. Bastin). | ||