Badger, George Percy (1815–1888), Arabic scholar and missionary, was born on 6 April 1815 at Chelmsford, Essex, the son of Edward Badger, army sergeant, and his wife, Ann (d. 1844). He was brought up in Malta, where his father, a regimental schoolmaster, died during his childhood, leaving his education in a rudimentary state. His fluency in Maltese, however, laid the foundation of his later mastery of Arabic. From 1834 he worked successively for the Methodist, American protestant, and Anglican missions in ...
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Badger, George Percy (1815–1888), Arabic scholar and missionary
G. J. Roper
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Bedwell, William (bap. 1563, d. 1632), Arabist and mathematician
Alastair Hamilton
Bedwell, William (bap. 1563, d. 1632), Arabist and mathematician, was born in Great Hallingbury in Essex, where he was baptized on 2 October 1563, one of at least four children of John Bedwell, a small landowner, and his wife, Anne. After an early interest in mathematics had been encouraged by his father's youngest brother, ...
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Bernard, Edward (1638–1697), mathematician and Arabist
Hugh de Quehen
Bernard, Edward (1638–1697), mathematician and Arabist, was born on 2 May 1638 at Paulerspury, near Towcester, Northamptonshire, the elder child of Joseph Bernard (c.1609–1644), clergyman, and Elizabeth Lenche or Linche (d. in or after 1669) of Wyche, near Great Malvern, Worcestershire...
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Carlyle, Joseph Dacre (1758–1804), Arabic scholar
Stanley Lane-Poole
revised by Philip Carter
Carlyle, Joseph Dacre (1758–1804), Arabic scholar, was born on 4 June 1758 at Carlisle, where his father practised as a physician. He was educated at Mr Wilson's school at Kirkby Lonsdale and at the Carlisle grammar school. On 13 January 1775 he entered ...
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Channing, John (c. 1703–1775), apothecary and Arabist
Emilie Savage-Smith
Channing, John (c. 1703–1775), apothecary and Arabist, was born in London, the first child of John Channing (d. 1725), a London apothecary, and his first wife, Elizabeth (d. 1705), daughter of Robert Erle of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset. Channing was apprenticed to his father on 5 August 1718, and was made a freeman of the ...
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Dawood, Nessim Joseph (1927–2014), translator, Arabic scholar, and Middle East consultant
Clive Holes
Dawood, Nessim Joseph (1927–2014), translator, Arabic scholar, and Middle East consultant, was born Nessim Yosef David Yehuda in Baghdad on 27 August 1927, the sixth of seven children of Yosef David Yehuda and his wife, Muzli, née Twaig. His father had been a Jewish Iraqi officer in the ...
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Eaton, (Horace Charles Le) Gai [names in religion Hasan ‘Abd al-Hakim, Sidi Hasan] (1921–2010), diplomatist and Muslim scholar
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Eaton, (Horace Charles Le) Gai [names in religion Hasan ‘Abd al-Hakim, Sidi Hasan] (1921–2010), diplomatist and Muslim scholar, was born on 1 January 1921 in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Francis Henry Launcelot Errington (1854–1942), barrister, and Ruth Frances Muddock (1881–1973)...
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Falconer, Ion Grant Neville Keith- (1856–1887), Arabic scholar
Robert Sinker
revised by John Gurney
Falconer, Ion Grant Neville Keith- (1856–1887), Arabic scholar, third son of Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, eighth earl of Kintore (1828–1880), and Louisa Madaleine Hawkins (d, 1916), was born at Edinburgh (probably at 24 Abercromby Place) on 5 July 1856. His family were the representatives of the ...
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Ferdinand, Philip (1556–1599), Hebrew and Arabic scholar
Alastair Hamilton
Ferdinand, Philip (1556–1599), Hebrew and Arabic scholar, was born of Jewish parentage in Poland in 1556. In his youth he studied the Talmud in the traditional Jewish manner and, judging from his elegant Latin, his command of Greek, and his fine handwriting, also received a humanist education. After about 1580 he was in ...
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Gibb, Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen (1895–1971), Arabic scholar
Albert Hourani
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Gibb, Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen (1895–1971), Arabic scholar, was born on 2 January 1895 at Alexandria, Egypt, the third of the three sons and youngest of the four children of Alexander Crawford Gibb, manager of the Aboukir Dairy Company of Abu Qir, Alexandria...
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Gibson [née Smith], Margaret Dunlop (1843–1920), Arabic and Syriac scholar
Christa Müller-Kessler
Gibson [née Smith], Margaret Dunlop (1843–1920), Arabic and Syriac scholar, was born on 16 April 1843 in Irvine, Ayrshire, the younger twin daughter of John Smith (d. 1866), writer to the signet, and his wife, Margaret, née Dunlop (d. 1843, three weeks after the twins' birth), both Scottish Presbyterians. Her father became wealthy on inheriting ...
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Glubb, Sir John Bagot [Glubb Pasha] (1897–1986)
Maker: Howard Coster
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Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897–1986) by Howard Coster, 1954 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Glubb, Sir John Bagot [known as Abu Hunaik; called Glubb Pasha] (1897–1986), army officer and Arabist
James Lunt
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Glubb, Sir John Bagot [known as Abu Hunaik; called Glubb Pasha] (1897–1986), army officer and Arabist, was born on 16 April 1897 in Preston, Lancashire, the only son and younger child of Sir Frederic Manley Glubb, a major in the Royal Engineers...
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Harvey, Leonard Patrick [Pat] (1929–2018), Hispanist and Arabist
Barry Taylor
Harvey, Leonard Patrick [Pat] (1929–2018), Hispanist and Arabist, was born on 25 February 1929 at Lewisham municipal maternity home, 41 Rushey Green, Catford, London, the son of Francis Thomas Harvey (1900–1984), carpenter, and his wife Eva Maud, née Jefferies...
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Hourani, Albert Habib (1915–1993), historian and Arabist
Roger Owen
Hourani, Albert Habib (1915–1993), historian and Arabist, was born on 31 March 1915 in Didsbury, south Manchester, the fifth of the six children of Fadlo Hourani (1871–1960), a textile exporter, and his wife, Soumaiya (1881–1943), daughter of the Revd Yuakim and Khazma Racy...
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Hyslop, (Kathleen) Rachel Maxwell- [née Kathleen Rachel Clay] (1914–2011), archaeologist and Near Eastern scholar
John Curtis
Hyslop, (Kathleen) Rachel Maxwell- [née Kathleen Rachel Clay] (1914–2011), archaeologist and Near Eastern scholar, was born on 27 March 1914 at 11 Tite Street, Chelsea, London, the eldest of the three daughters of Sir Charles Travis Clay (1885–1978), historian and librarian to the ...
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Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932), Islamic scholar and missionary
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932), Islamic scholar and missionary, was born in Lahore, Punjab, British India, the son of Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din. He came from a Kashmiri family with a tradition of distinguished public service: his grandfather, Abdur Rashid, was at one time the qazi (chief Muslim judge) of ...
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Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (1870–1932) by unknown photographer, 1918 Woking Muslim Mission
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Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932)
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Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (1870–1932) by unknown photographer, 1918 Woking Muslim Mission
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Lewis, Agnes Smith (1843–1926), Arabic and Syriac scholar and novelist
Christa Müller-Kessler
Lewis, Agnes Smith (1843–1926), Arabic and Syriac scholar and novelist, was born Agnes Smith on 16 April 1843 in Irvine, Ayrshire. She was the elder identical twin daughter of John Smith (d. 1866), writer to the signet of Irvine, and his wife, ...
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