File GMT/3/1/10 - Application from Dr. A.E. Affifi

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GB 891 GMT-GMT/3-GMT/3/1-GMT/3/1/10

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Application from Dr. A.E. Affifi

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  • 11 Oct 1937 (Creation)

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Gibb Memorial Trust Cambridge

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Nicholson Reynold Alleyne 1868-1945

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Reynold Alleyne Nicholson was a scholar of both Islamic literature and Islamic mysticism and widely regarded as one of the greatest Rumi scholars and translators in the English language. He was an original trustee of the Gibb Memorial Trust and for many years served as its Chairman.

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'Application from Dr. A.E. Affifi, Lecturer in Muslim Philosophy in the Egyptian University' - report written by R.A. Nicholson to suggest the the Gibb Memorial Trust subsidise Affifi's publication of 'The Mystical Philosophy of Ibna - 'l - 'Arabi' although it is too short to become one of the Gibb Memorial Series.

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