Norman Calder

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Why Is Norman Calder Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Norman Calder was a British historian. Life Norman Calder was born in Buckie, Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom. In 1969 Calder went to Wadham College, Oxford, and received a first in Arabic and Persian language in 1972. Then he went to the Middle East for four years where he worked as an English teacher. Back in Britain, he joined the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS in London and made his Ph.D. under John Wansbrough. In 1980 he went to the University of Manchester to the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. There, he was Senior Lecturer in Arabic until his death. As a student of Wansbrough, Calder belongs to the so-called "revisionist" school of Islamic Studies.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Norman Calder?

Norman Calder is affiliated with the following schools:

• SOAS University of London
• University of Manchester