H. A. R. Gibb
Scottish orientalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb , known as H. A. R. Gibb, was a Scottish historian and Orientalist. Early life and education Gibb was born on Wednesday, 2 January 1895, in Alexandria, Egypt, to Alexander Crawford Gibb, the son of John Gibb of Gladstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and Jane Ann Gardner of Greenock, Scotland. His father died in 1897, following which his mother took up a teaching position in Alexandria. Hamilton returned to Scotland for his formal education at the age of five: first, four years of private tuition, after which he started at the Royal High School, Edinburgh in 1904, staying until 1912. His education was focused on classics, though it included French, German, and physical sciences. In 1912, Hamilton matriculated at University of Edinburgh, joining the new honours program in Semitic languages . Hamilton's mother died in 1913 while he was studying in his second year at university. He had two brothers, Euston Gibb and Archibald Gibb.
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- Encyclopédie de l'Islam (1978) (49)
- Les tendances modernes de l'Islam (1949) (3)
- La Civilisation du désert (1948) (1)
- “ Les Perles Choisies” d'Ibn ach-Chihna . [Translated by] J. Sauvaget. Matériaux pour servir à l'Histoire de la Ville d'Alep. 10 × 6½, pp. xv + 223. Beyrouth: L'Institut français de Damas, 1933. (1936) (1)
- L’Évolution De L’Égypte 1924–50 (1952) (1)
- Documents Inédits d'Histoire Almohade . Publiés et traduits … parE. Lévi-Provençal. (Textes arabes relatifs à l'histoire de l'Occident musulman, Vol. I.) 10 × 6½. xii + 272 + pp., 2 maps. Paris: Geuthner, 1928. (1930) (1)
- La structure de la pensée religieuse de l'Islam (1950) (0)
- Revue des Études Islamiques. Tome IX (Année 1935) . 4 cahiers, pp. 431. Paris: Geuthner. Subscription price 100 francs. (1937) (0)
- Et-Tamgrouti: En-Nafhat el-Miskiya fi-s-Sifarat et-Tourkiya. Traduite et annotée par H. de Castries. Et-Tamgrouti. pp. xvi + 130. Paris: Geuthner, 1929. (1930) (0)
- L'Islam devant le monde moderne (1947) (0)
- Revue des Études Islamiques. Tome II. publiée sous la direction de L. Massignon. Année 1928. 4 cahiers. pp. 611. Paris: Geuthner. Subscription price 100 francs. (1929) (0)
- Revue des Études Islamiques . Publiée sous la direction de L. Massignon. Tome VII (Année 1933), 4 cahiers, pp. 645. Paris: Geuthner. Subscription price 100 francs per annum. (1935) (0)
- Revue des Études Islamiques. Publiée sous la direction de L. Massignon. Tome III (Année 1929), 4 cahiers, pp. 676. Tome IV (Année 1930), 4 cahiers, pp. 610. Paris: Geuthner. Subscription price 100 francs per annum. (1932) (0)
- Modern Trends in Islam@@@Les Tendances Modernes de l'Islam (1951) (0)
- Revue Des Études Islamiques. Publiée sous la direction de L. Massignon. Tome X (Année 1936), pp. 434. Tome XI (Année 1937), pp. 414. Paris: Geuthner. Subscription price 100 francs per annum. (1939) (0)
- Pour Apprendre L'Arabe, Manuel du Dialecte Vulgaire d'Egypte . By G. Hug and G. Habachi. 7½ × 5, pp. x + 136. Paris: Geuthner. 1928. (1930) (0)
- Byzance et les Arabes . By A. A. Vasiliev. Tome II: La Dynastie Macédonienne (867–959). Edition française préparée par H. Grégoire et M. Canard. Deuxième partie; Extraits des Sources Arabes, traduits par M. Canard, pp. x + 440. Bruxelles, 1950. (1953) (0)
- Revu des tudes Islamiques , publie sous la direction de L. Massignon. Tome I. Anne 1927. 4 Cahiers pp. 618. (1928) (0)
- Histoire Des Croisades Et Du Royaume Franc De Jérusalem. II : Monarchie Franque et Monarchic Musulmane: L'Équilibre. Par René Grousset. 8vo, pp. iv + 921. Paris: Plon, 1935. 100 fcs. (1935) (0)
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