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John C. Wilkinson

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British academic scholar on Islamic studies

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According to Wikipedia, John Craven Wilkinson is a scholar of Islamic studies specializing in Ibadi studies. He is a British expert in the field of Ibadi studies. Biography Prior to his career in Islamic studies, he worked for international oil companies throughout the Middle East. He then returned to the UK to obtain his PhD at Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Ibadi Imamate of Oman. In 1969, he finished his PhD thesis titled Arab settlement in Oman: the origins and development of the tribal pattern and its relationship to the Imamate. Wilkinson then began a prolific career publishing on Ibadi Islam and Omani history. From 1969 until his retirement in 1997, Wilkinson taught at Oxford University as a Reader. He is also an Emeritus Fellow of St. Hugh's College in Oxford. He is widely regarded as the world's foremost Western expert on Oman's tribes, demonstrated especially in Water and tribal settlement in South-East Arabia. A study of the Aflāj of Oman in 1977.

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