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English scholar
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Guy le Strange
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24 July 1854(England, United Kingdom)
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1 January 1934
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Biography
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Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) 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.
He was born in Hunstanton, Norfolk and died in Cambridge.
Works
- 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 (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.