Joseph Morgan (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1739) was a British historical compiler.

Works

Morgan edited a periodical ''Phoenix Britannicus, being a miscellaneous Collection of scarce and curious Tracts… interspersed with choice pieces from original MSS.'', from January 1732. It ran for six numbers, republished in one volume, with dedication to

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, (18 May 17018 August 1750) of Goodwood House near Chichester in Sussex, was a British nobleman and politician. He was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmo ...

. Other works included: *''Mahometism Fully Explained'' (1723) *''Mahometism Explained'' (1725). These two were in part based on a manuscript of 1603 by Muhammad Rabadan of

Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to sou ...

. * ''The History of Algiers'' (1728–9) * ''The Lives and Memorable Actions of many Illustrious Persons of the Eastern Nations'' (1739), based partly on papers of

George Sale George Sale (1697–1736) was a British Orientalist scholar and practising solicitor, best known for his 1734 translation of the Quran into English. In 1748, after having read Sale's translation, Voltaire wrote his own essay "De l'Alcoran ...

. He also made some translations from French and Dutch.

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