Douglas Morton Dunlop (1909–1987) was a renowned British
orientalist and scholar of
Islamic
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the mai ...
and
Eurasian history.
Early life and education
Born in England, Dunlop studied at Bonn and Oxford under the historian
Paul Ernst Kahle (1875–1965). His work was also influenced by such scholars as
Zeki Validi Togan
Zeki Velidi Togan ( ba, Әхмәтзәки Әхмәтшаһ улы Вәлиди, Äxmätzäki Äxmätşah ulı Wälidi; russian: Ахмет-Заки Ахметшахович Валидов, tr, Ahmet Zeki Velidi Togan; 1890 – 1970 in Istanbul), ...
,
Mikhail Artamonov, and
George Vernadsky. His uncle was
B. K. Cunningham
Bertram Keir Cunningham, (26 March 1871 – 10 September 1944), also known as B. K. Cunningham, was a British Anglican priest and academic. From 1919 to 1943, he was Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge, a Church of England theological college ...
, an Anglican priest and academic.
Career
In the 1950s and '60s, Dunlop was Professor of History at
Columbia University in New York. He is best known for his influential histories of
Arab civilization and the
Khazar Khagan
Khagan or Qaghan (Mongolian:; or ''Khagan''; otk, 𐰴𐰍𐰣 ), or , tr, Kağan or ; ug, قاغان, Qaghan, Mongolian Script: ; or ; fa, خاقان ''Khāqān'', alternatively spelled Kağan, Kagan, Khaghan, Kaghan, Khakan, Khakhan ...
ate. Dunlop was the "most esteemed scholar of the Khazar monarchy." He had command of the many languages needed to study the Khazars, information about whom is found in Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Chinese literature.
[Anita Shapira, "The Jewish-people deniers," ''Journal of Israeli History,'' Volume 28, Issue 1 March 2009 , pp. 63–72]
Representative publications
As author
*"The Arabic Tradition of the
Summa Alexandrinorum
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", in ''Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge'', 1982
*''
Arab civilization to A.D. 1500'' London: Longman, 1971.
*''Arab civilization to A.D. 1500'', New York: Praeger, 1971.
*''The History of the
Jewish Khazars'', New York: Schocken Books, 1967.
*"The Khazars." ''The
Dark Ages: Jews in Christian Europe, 711–1096''. 1966.
*"The Translations of
al-Bitrîq and Yahyâ (Yuhannâ) b. al-Bitrîq", in ''Journal of the
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'', 1959
*Dunlop, Douglas M.. (1957) "Sources of Gold and Silver in
Islam
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according to
al-Hamdani (10th Century AD)", in ''Studia Islamica''
*"Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries of
Ibn Bâjjah
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyà ibn aṣ-Ṣā’igh at-Tūjībī ibn Bājja ( ar, أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ التجيبي بن باجة), best known by his Latinised name Avempace (; – 1138), was an A ...
", in The ''Islamic Quarterly'', 1955
*"Aspects of the Khazar Problem", in ''Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society'', 1951.
*"Ibn Bajjah's 'Tadbîru l-Mutawahhid'", in ''
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland'', 1945.
*"The Karaits of East Asia", in ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'', 1944.
*"
Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Khwārizmī", in ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland'', 1943.
*"The
Dhunnunids of
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", in ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland'', 1942.
As translator
*Abu Mashar al-Balkhi, Jafar Ibn Muhammad. (1971) ''The Mudhâkarât fî'Ilm an-Nujûm'' (Dialogues on Astrology) Attributed to Abû Ma'shar al Balkhî (Albumasar) (Book Chapter in Iran and Islam: in memory of the late
Vladimir Minorsky )
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1961) ''Fusul al-Madani: Aphorisms of the Statesman '' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1959) "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle
art 2
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
. ''The Islamic quarterly'' pp. 21–54
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1957) "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle
art 1
Art is a diverse range of human behavior, human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imagination, imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no genera ...
''The Islamic quarterly'' pp. 168–197
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1956) "Al-Farabi's Introductory Risalah on Logic" ''The Islamic quarterly'' pp. 224–235
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1956) "Al-Farabi's Eisagoge" ''The Islamic quarterly'' pp. 117–138
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1955) "Al-Farabi's Introductory Sections on Logic" ''The Islamic quarterly'' pp. 264–282
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1952) "Al-Farabi's Aphorisms of the Statesman" (Journal Article in ''Iraq'' (London) ) pp. 93–117
*al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1951) "The Existence and Definition of Philosophy / From an Arabic text ascribed to al-Farabi" (Journal Article in ''Iraq'' (London) pp. 76–93)
References
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1909 births
1987 deaths
British orientalists
Historians of the Middle East
Khazar studies
20th-century British historians