Name: A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 By C. Edmund Bosworth (Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester)
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A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 by C. Edmund Bosworth (Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester)

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 civilisations of the East sympathetically. Through the careers and achievements of these influential scholars these essays shed light on studies ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, through Arabic, Persian and Turkish, to Indology, Chinese and Japanese. With important changes of methodology and approach to the cultures and religions of Asia, the twentieth century has been an exciting and fruitful period for Oriental Studies in Britain.

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These biographies ... speak of the extraordinary drive of humans to advance knowledge for its own sake, of their passionate engagement with the societies they studied ... and of their opposition to government policies in relation to these societies. * Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society *
A Century of British Orientalists provides plentiful material for reflection. * The Journal of Asian Studies *

Editor's Introduction ; Harold Walter Bailey ; Alfred Felix Landon Beeston ; Edward Granville Browne ; Gerard Leslie Makins Clauson ; Godfrey Rolles Driver ; Samuel Rolles Driver ; Alan Henderson Gardiner ; Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb ; Francis Llewellyn Griffith ; Vladimir Fed'orovich Minorsky ; Ralph Lilley Turner ; Arthur David Waley ; Richard Olaf Winstedt

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GOR013742726

ISBN 13

9780197262436

ISBN 10

0197262430

Title

A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 by C. Edmund Bosworth (Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester)

Author

C. Edmund Bosworth (Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester)

Series

British Academy Centenary Monographs

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

2001-10-25

Number of pages

270

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A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 C. Edmund Bosworth (Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester)

A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 by C. Edmund Bosworth (Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester)

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A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 Summary

A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001 by C. Edmund Bosworth (Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, Fellow of the British Academy Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Manchester)

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