{"id":131,"date":"2008-11-11T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrologialatinagraecaetorientalis.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/11\/margoliouth-margoliouth\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:29:00","slug":"margoliouth-margoliouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plgo.org\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Margoliouth & Margoliouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are two prominent persons who have the same surname in the filed of the oriental studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are:<\/span><\/p>\n

Jessie Payne Margoliouth, and David Samuel Margoliouth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wiki record about D. S. Margoliouth shows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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David Samuel Margoliouth<\/span><\/h1>\n

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David Samuel Margoliouth<\/b> (October 17<\/a>, 1858<\/a> in London, England<\/a>, \u2013 March 22<\/a>, 1940<\/a>) was an orientalist<\/a>. He was briefly active as a priest in the Church of England<\/a>. He was Laudian Professor of Arabic<\/a> at the University of Oxford<\/a> from 1889 to 1937. [1]<\/a><\/sup>[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

His father had converted from Judaism to Anglicanism, and thereafter worked in Bethnal Green as a missionary to the Jews; he was also close to his uncle,[3]<\/a><\/sup> the Anglican convert Moses Margoliouth<\/a>.[4]<\/a><\/sup>. Margoliouth was educated at Winchester<\/a>, where he was a scholar, and at New College, Oxford<\/a> where he graduated with a double first in Greats and won an unprecedented number of prizes in Classics and Oriental languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of his works on the history of Islam became the standard treatises in English, including Mohammed and the Rise of Islam<\/i> (1905), The Early Development of Mohammedanism<\/i> (1914), and The Relations Between Arabs and Israelites Prior to the Rise of Islam<\/i> (1924)[2]<\/a><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was described as brilliant editor and translator of Arabic works[2]<\/a><\/sup>, as seen in The Letters of Abu’l-‘Ala of Ma’arrat al-Nu’man<\/a><\/i> (1898), Yaqut’s Dictionary of Learned Men<\/i>, 6 vol. (1907\u201327), and the chronicle of Miskawayh<\/a>, prepared in collaboration with H. F. Amedroz<\/a> under the title The Eclipse of the ‘Abbasid Caliphate<\/i>, 7 vol. (1920\u201321). Some of David Samuel Margoliouth’s studies are included in The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam\u2019s Holy Book<\/a><\/i> edited by Ibn Warraq<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was a member of the council of the Royal Asiatic Society<\/a> from 1905 onwards, its director in 1927, was awarded its triennial gold medal in 1928, and was its president 1934-37[1]<\/a><\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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