Guy Le Strange

Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500

Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933; surname: Le Strange) was a scholar in Persian, Arabic, and Spanish, specially notable for his work in the field of the historical geography of the pre-modern Middle Eastern and Eastern Islamic lands and his editing of Persian geographical texts.[1]

He was born in Brussels, Belgium[2], the youngest child of Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk, and died in Cambridge.[3]

Works

Books

  • Schumacher, Gottlieb; Oliphant, Laurence; Le Strange, Guy (1889). Across the Jordan; being an exploration and survey of part of Hauran and Jaulan. London: Watt.
  • Le Strange, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. OCLC 1004386.
  • Le Strange, Guy (1900). Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Le Strange, Guy (1922). Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources (2 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Le Strange, Guy (1903). Mesopotamia and Persia under the Mongols, in the fourteenth century A.D. From the Nuzhat-al-Ḳulūb of Ḥamd-Allah Mustawfī. London: Royal Asiatic Society. OCLC 5235794.
  • Le Strange, Guy (1905). The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. OCLC 1044046. + Index

Articles

  • Ibn al-Furat; Le Strange (1900). "The Death of the Last Abbasid Caliph, from the Vatican MS. of Ibn al-Furat". JRAS. 32: 293–300.

References

  1. ↑ Bosworth, C. Edmund (March 28, 2014). "Le Strange, Guy". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Norfolk Record Office - le Strange Papers Ref: NC 22
  3. ↑ Probate Registry Grant - Feb 1934
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