- Arthur John Arberry
Arthur John Arberry (
Portsmouth ,May 12 1905 –Cambridge ,October 2 1969 ) was a respected and most prolific scholar ofArab ic,Persia n, andIslamic studies . He was educated atPortsmouth Grammar School andPembroke College, Cambridge .Formerly Head of the Department of Classics atCairo University inEgypt , he returned home to become the Assistant Librarian at the Library of theIndia Office . During the war he was a Postal Censor in Liverpool and was then seconded to theMinistry of Information , London which was housed in the newly-constructedSenate House of theUniversity of London . Arberry was appointed to the Chair of Persian at the School of Oriental and African StudiesSOAS , University of London 1944-47. He subsequently became theSir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University and a Fellow ofPembroke College, Cambridge , his alma mater, from 1947 until his death in 1969. Arberry's translation of theQur'an is widely respected, one of the most prominent written by a non-Muslim scholar.Arberry is also notable for introducing
Rumi 's works to the west through his selective translations - edited byBadiozzaman Forouzanfar , his interpretation ofMuhammad Iqbal 's writings is similarly distinguished.Popular Works
*Translations of
Iqbal 's works
*The Mysteries Of Selflessness
*Javid Nama
*The Koran Interpreted
*The Seven OdesExternal links
* [http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v2f3/v2f3a039.html] Iranica Article
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