Arthur Jeffery
Australian orientalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Jeffery was a Protestant Australian professor of Semitic languages from 1921 at the School of Oriental Studies in Cairo, and from 1938 until his death jointly at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Jeffery was awarded a D.Litt. from Edinburgh University in 1938. He is the author of extensive historical studies of Middle Eastern manuscripts. His important works include Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an: The Old Codices, which catalogs all surviving documented variants of the orthodox Quran text; and The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an, which traces the origins of 318 foreign words found in the Qur'an.
Arthur Jeffery's Published Works
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- The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an (139)
- Ancient West-Arabian (1952) (66)
- Ghevond's Text of the Correspondence between ʻUmar II and Leo III (1944) (24)
- Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'ān : the old Codices (1937) (18)
- THE QUR'ĀN AS SCRIPTURE (1950) (14)
- The Qur'an. Translated with a critical re-arrangement of the Surahs. By Richard Bell. Vol. II, Surahs XXV–CXLVI. 9 × 6, pp. vii + 346 to 697. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1939. Price 12s. 6d. (1941) (11)
- Index of Qurʾānic verses to the English part of materials for the history of the text of the Qurʾān (1951) (11)
- Ethiopic and South Arabic Contributions to the Hebrew Lexicon (1959) (9)
- The Qur'ān: Translated with a Critical Re-arrangement of the Surahs . By Richard Bell. Vol. I. 8¾ × 6; pp. xii + 343. Edinburgh, 1937. T. and T. Clark. 12s. 6d. (1938) (9)
- A reader on Islam (1962) (8)
- Islam : Mohammad and his religion (1958) (7)
- THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL MOHAMMED (1926) (6)
- The Political Importance of Islam (1942) (6)
- Background of the Middle East (1953) (5)
- Ibn AL-Arabi's Shajarat al-Kawn (1959) (5)
- A reader on Islam : passages from standard Arabic writings illustrative of the beliefs and practices of Muslims (1962) (5)
- Bibliography of the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia (1946) (4)
- Arabic Thought and Its Place in History (1940) (4)
- THE QUR'ĀN AS SCRIPTURE III (1950) (4)
- THREE CAIRO MODERNISTS (1932) (3)
- THE MYSTIC LETTERS OF THE KORAN (1924) (3)
- CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTH ARABIA (1946) (3)
- THE PROPHET OF ISLAM1 (1938) (3)
- Stylistic Criteria and the Analysis of the Pentateuch (1956) (3)
- A COLLECTION OF ANTI-CHRISTIAN BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS FOUND IN ACTUAL USE AMONG THE MOHAMMEDANS OF CAIRO (3)
- A VARIANT TEXT OF THE FĀTIHA (1939) (3)
- Islam: Muḫammad and His Religion@@@Islam: Muhammad and His Religion (1960) (2)
- ANTI‐CHRISTIAN LITERATURE (1927) (2)
- Studia Orientalia Edidit Societas Orientalis Fennica. (1949) (2)
- A MOSLEM TORAH FROM INDIA (1925) (2)
- ECLECTICISM IN ISLAM (1922) (1)
- Near Eastern Culture and Society: A Symposium on the Meeting of East and West. (1952) (1)
- THE MECCA PILGRIMAGE IN THE LIFE OF ISLAM (1)
- THE QUR'?N AS SCRIPTURE III (1950) (1)
- THE PRESENTATION OF CHRISTIANITY TO MOSLEMS (1924) (1)
- DAVID SAMUEL MARGOLIOUTH (1940) (0)
- A Reference to the Ishtar-Cult in the Qur'an (1925) (0)
- Book Review:Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of a Cultural Tradition G. E. von Grunebaum (1957) (0)
- ABÜ‘UBAID ON THE VERSES MISSING FROM THE QUR'ĀN (1938) (0)
- The Conflict of Religions, by Philip H. Ashby. 225 pp. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. $3.50 (1956) (0)
- Book Review:Documents Tigrigna (Ethiopien septentrionale): grammaire et textes Wolf Leslau (1945) (0)
- Ibn Al-Arabi's Shajarat Al-Kawn (Concluded) (1959) (0)
- Book Review:Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization Gustave E. von Grunebaum (1957) (0)
- THE PATIENCE OF UNANSWERED PRAYER (1945) (0)
- The Arab Heritage (1945) (0)
- CHRISTIANS AT MECCA (1929) (0)
- Recensions of the Septuagint Pentateuch (1956) (0)
- Materials for the history of the texzt of the Qur'an (1938) (0)
- GREGORY OF TATHEW'S “CONTRA MOHAMMEDANOS” (1942) (0)
- Modernism in Islam (1933) (0)
- The Ethiopic Text of Psalm 63:1 (1941) (0)
- YUSUF ALI'S TRANSLATION OF THE QUR'AN (1940) (0)
- THE ANTI‐CHRISTIAN MOSLEM PRESS (1926) (0)
- Nuzhat al-‘Umr fi’t-Tafḍīl bain al-Baiḍ Wa's-Sūd Wa's-Sumr . By Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūṭī. 9 × 6¼, 16 pp. Damascus: Taraqqī Press, 1349. (1937) (0)
- WAS MUHAMMAD A PROPHET FROM HIS INFANCY (1930) (0)
- PRESENT‐DAY MOVEMENTS IN ISLAM* (1943) (0)
- The Order of the Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizârî Ismâʿîlîs against the Islamic World. Marshall G. S. Hodgson (1957) (0)
- Islam and Christian Theology, Part II, Vol. I, by J. W. Sweetman. 354 pp. London, Lutterworth Press, 1955. 31 s. 6 d (1956) (0)
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