The "E. J. W. Gibb Memorial" Series (abbreviation: GMS) is an orientalist book series with important works of

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, Turkish and Arab history, literature, philosophy and religion, including many works in English translation. Some works were included in the

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.Gibb Memorial Series
iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 28 April 2020. It is dedicated to the memory of the Scottish orientalist

Elias John Wilkinson Gibb Elias John Wilkinson Gibb (3 June 1857 - 5 December 1901) was a Scottish orientalist. Gibb was born 3 June 1857 in Glasgow, at 25 Newton Place, to Elias John Gibb and Jane Gilman. He was educated by Collier and matriculated from Glasgow Univers ...

(1857-1901). The series was sponsored and funded by the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust (originally known as the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial) and published from 1905 to 1997. The publishers in the early years were Luzac & Co., London and

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, Leiden). From 1921 up until the 1970s Luzac & Co. became the sole publisher. The series appeared in an ''old series'' – No. 1 (1905) - No. 25 (1927) – and a ''new series'' (NS) – No. 1 (1921) - No. 33 (1997). Some numbers of the series included several volumes. In 2012 various titles were available from Oxbow Books, a book publishing and distribution firm in Oxford. In 2022 the Edinburgh University Press was involved in the publishing and distribution of the titles in the Gibb Memorial Series.

E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust

The following persons and firms were associated with the Trust when it was founded in 1902.''The Tajârib al-umam; or, History of Ibn Miskawayh''
Volume V, Leiden: E. J. Brill and London: Luzac & Co., 1913. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

Original trustees

Jane (née Gilman) Gibb (E. J. W. Gibb's mother, died 1904)

Edward Granville Browne Edward Granville Browne FBA (7 February 1862 – 5 January 1926) was a British Iranologist. He published numerous articles and books, mainly in the areas of history and literature. Life Browne was born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, En ...

Guy Le Strange Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) was a British Orientalist noted especially for his work in the field of the historical geography of the pre-modern Middle Eastern and Eastern Islamic lands, and his editing of Persian geographic ...

Henry Frederick Amedroz Alexander George Ellis Reynold A. Nicholson

Edward Denison Ross Sir Edward Denison Ross (6 June 1871 – 20 September 1940) was an orientalist and linguist, specializing in languages of the Middle East, Central and East Asia. He was the first director of the University of London's School of Oriental Studies ( ...

Subsequent trustees

Ida W. E. (Ogilvy) Gregory (formerly Ida W. E. Gibb; nee Ida W. E. Rodriguez), who was E. J. W. Gibb's widow, was appointed in 1905 and gradually replaced Mrs. Jane Gibb. Other subsequent trustees included prominent scholars such as " Charles A. Storey, Hamilton A. R. Gibb,

Reuben Levy Reuben Levy (28 April 1891 – 6 September 1966) was Professor of Persian at the University of Cambridge, who wrote on Persian literature and Islamic history. Life Levy was educated at the Friars School, Bangor, the University College of North ...

, Arthur J. Arberry, Alfred F. L. Beeston, Harold W. Bailey,

Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near E ...

Ann K. S. Lambton Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton, (8 February 1912 – 19 July 2008), usually known as A.K.S. Lambton or "Nancy" Lambton, was a British historian and expert on medieval and early modern Persian history, Persian language, Islamic political theo ...

, James D. Pearson, Geoffrey L. Lewis, and Robert B. Serjeant".

Clerk of the Trust

W. L. Raynes, of Cambridge

Publishers For The Trustees

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. Luzac & Co.,

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References

External links

The EJG Memorial Trust
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