Author: Dunlop, Douglas Morton. (1909-1987). British Orientalist and Islamic scholar.
Title: Typed Letter About a Photostat of an Islamic Manuscript Signed by British Orientalist and Islamic Scholar Douglas Morton Dunlop.
Description: Cambridge, U.K.: November 9, 1954. 1954. - Typed letter filling 1-1/4 sides of his gray 7-1/8 inch high by 5-3/8 inch wide letterhead with his address printed at the top. Signed "D. M. Dunlop". There is some light staining to the edges of the letter with an additional small, light stain to the blank section of the verso. Folded once for mailing. Good.

Dunlop writes to his correspondent about a photostat of an Islamic manuscript offered for sale in Dawson's catalogue. "..I am inclined to think that this is the same work as the Kitab Tafhim fi'n-Nujum (sic, not Najum, as in the catalogue), and further, that the photostat now offered for sale may have been made in connection with this edition. I saw Tillotson, who will propose purchase of the photostat at a meeting of the Library committee this afternoon.."

British orientalist and scholar of Islamic and Eurasian history Douglas Morton Dunlop [1909-1987] studied at Bonn and Oxford under the historian Paul Ernst Kahle. In the 1950s and '60s, he was Professor of History at Columbia University in New York. He is best known for his influential histories, "Arab Civilization to A.D. 1500" [London: Longman, 1971] and "The History of the Jewish Khazars" [New York: Schocken Books, 1967]. Dunlop was the "most esteemed scholar of the Khazar monarchy" and had command of the many languages needed to study the Khazars--Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Chinese. Good .

Keywords: HISTORY; ISLAMIC HISTORY; EURASIAN HISTORY; KHAZARS; TYPED LETTER ABOUT A PHOTOSTAT OF AN ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT SIGNED BY BRITISH ORIENTALIST AND ISLAMIC SCHOLAR DOUGLAS MORTON DUNLOP; PURCHASE OF PHOTOSTAT OF AN ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT; DAWSON'S CATALOGUE; K

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