John Andrew Boyle
British historian
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John Andrew Boyle (1916− 19 November, 1978), was a British orientalist and historian.
Life and career
He was born at Worcester Park, Surrey, England, on 10 March 1916. He graduated with first class honours in German at Birmingham University . He later pursued the studies of Oriental languages at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. [1]
He completed his doctoral dissertation under the guidance of Vladimir Minorsky .
He later became a professor of Persian at Manchester University . [2]
He produced a Persian dictionary and a grammar book of modern Persian .
He was the only European ever to receive the Iranian order of Sepas .
Bibliography
He was the author of the following books: [3]
- The history of the world-conqueror / 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini. - Manchester : Manchester Univ. Press, 1958 (2 Bände)
- Grammar of modern Persian / by John Andrew Boyle. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1966 (Porta linguarum orientalium ; N.S., 9)
- The successors of Genghis Khan / Rašīd-ad-Dīn Faḍlallāh. - New York [u.a.] : Columbia Univ. Press, 1971
- The Cambridge history of Iran / [Board of ed. A. J. Arberry ...] Vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol periods / ed. by J. A. Boyle. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1968
- The Ilāhī-Nāma or Book of God of Farīd al-Din ʿAṭṭār / transl. from the Persian by John Andrew Boyle. With a foreword by Annemarie Schimmel. Manchester : Univ. Press, 1976 (Persian heritage series)
- The Mongol World Empire : 1206 - 1370 / John Andrew Boyle. London : Variorum Reprints, 1977 (Collected studies series ; 58)
References
- ↑ "BOYLE, JOHN ANDREW – Encyclopaedia Iranica" . Iranicaonline.org . Retrieved 19 October 2013 .
- ↑ Elwell-Sutton, L. P. (1 January 1979). "Obituary: John Andrew Boyle". Folklore . 90 (1): 105–106. doi : 10.1080/0015587X.1979.9716129 .
- ↑ "Boyle, John Andrew - People and organisations - Trove" . Trove.nla.gov.au . Retrieved 19 October 2013 .
External links
- https://archive.org/details/historyoftheworl011648mbp
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1979.9716129?journalCode=rfol20#.UmJthnDXCE4
- http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/boyle-john-andrew-1916-78-british-orientalist
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