Wheeler Thackston

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Wheeler Thackston

Political Science

#3157

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#3697

Historical Rank

#1289

USA Rank

Asian Studies

#101

World Rank

#164

Historical Rank

#38

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According to Wikipedia, Wheeler McIntosh Thackston is an American Orientalist. He has edited and translated numerous Chaghatai, Arabic, and Persian literary and historical works. Life Thackston is a graduate of Princeton's Oriental Studies department, where he was a member of Princeton's Colonial Club, and Harvard's Near Eastern Studies department , where he was Professor of the Practice of Persian and other Near Eastern Languages from 1972. He studied at Princeton under Martin Dickson and at Harvard with Annemarie Schimmel. Thackston retired from teaching at Harvard in 2007.

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Wheeler Thackston's Published Works

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The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India (1999) (49)
A century of princes : sources on Timurid history and art (1989) (34)
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (2002) (29)
Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters (2000) (24)
An introduction to Persian (1994) (23)
The Tales of the Prophets of al-Kisa'i (1980) (22)
King of the world : the Padshahnama, an imperial Mughal manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (1997) (21)
An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language (1995) (18)
Suhrawardi's "Tales of Initiation"The Mystical and Visionary Treatises of Suhrawardi (1987) (18)
Rashiduddin Fazlullah's Jamiʿuʾt-tawarikh = Compendium of chronicles : a history of the Mongols (1998) (16)
Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Paintings in the Pierpont Morgan Library (1998) (12)
Murder, mayhem, pillage and plunder : the history of Lebanon in the 18th and 19th centuries (1988) (11)
A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading and Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century (1994) (9)
Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of travels : Safarnama (2001) (8)
Mirza Haydar Dughlat's Tarikh-i-Rashidi : a history of the khans of Moghulistan (1996) (8)
Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi (1993) (8)
Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy (2016) (5)
Bâburnâma : Chaghatay Turkish text with Abdul-Rahim Khankhanan's Persian translation (1997) (5)
The History of Akbar (2015) (5)
Introduction to Syriac : An Elementary Grammar With Readings from Syriac Literature (1999) (5)
The philosophical allegories and mystical treatises (1999) (4)
The reign of the Mongol and the Turk (1994) (4)
The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary (2017) (4)
Three memoirs of Humayun (2009) (4)
Nāṣer-e Khosraw's Book of Travels (Safarnāma)@@@Naser-e Khosraw's Book of Travels (Safarnama) (1989) (4)
Going Places with Naser-e Khosrow and His Translator@@@Naser-e Khosraw's Book of Travels (Safarnama) (1993) (2)
The book of wisdom . Intimate conversations (1978) (2)
Mikhāyil Mishāqa: Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder; The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries@@@Mikhayil Mishaqa: Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder; The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries (1992) (2)
Tales from Luristan (Matalyâ Lurissu̳) : tales, fables, and folk poetry from the Lur of Bâlâ-Garîva (1986) (1)
Classical writings of the medieval Islamic world : Persian histories of the Mongol dynasties (2012) (1)
Tales of the prophets (Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ) (1997) (1)
Index of Geographical Places (2016) (0)
Metrics, Licenses, and Historical Linguistics@@@Tales from Luristan (Matalyâ Lurissu̵): Tales, fables, and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bâlâ-Garîva@@@Tales from Luristan (Matalya Lurissu): Tales, fables, and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bala-Gariva (1989) (0)
Translation, Transcription, and Drawings (2017) (0)
Najm al-Din Razi [known as “Daya”] . The Path of God’s Bondsmen from Origin to Return (Mirsad al-ʿibad min al-mabda’ ila al-maʿad) . Translated by Hamid Algar. Persian Heritage Series, 35. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1982. 537 pp., bibliography. (1983) (0)
Selected Bibliography of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani (2016) (0)
Metrics, Licenses, and Historical LinguisticsTales from Luristan : Tales, fables, and Folk Poetry from the Lur of B'l'-GarîvaTales from Luristan : Tales, fables, and Folk Poetry from the Lur of Bala-Gariva (1989) (0)

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