Serie CAS/10 - Correspondence

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GB 891 CAS-CAS/10

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Correspondence

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  • 1914-1965 (Creación)

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(August 7, 1918 – January 26, 2006)

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George Michael Wickens was a distinguished Canadian-British Persianist as well as Arabist, translator and a University lecturer. Wickens was born in London, England and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his BA in 1939 and MA in 1946, respectively. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Army Pay Corp from 1939 to 1941 and the Intelligence Corps from 1941 to 1946, rising to the rank of captain. Following his wartime service, most of which was spent in Iran, Wickens resumed academic life, teaching at the University of London for three years before accepting an invitation to return to Cambridge. He taught there until 1957 when he was offered an associate professorship at University of Toronto. He became a full professor in 1960 and founding chair of the Department of Islamic Studies (predecessor to today’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) in 1961. A prolific and distinguished humanities scholar, Wickens was the author of 'Avicenna: Scientist and Philosopher' (1952) and he translated several masterpieces of Persian literature such as Boostan of Sa'di into English. Wickens died in Toronto, Ontario in 2006 from a stroke

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(1880-1973)

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Herbert Niel Randle C.I.E. F.B.A. (1880–1973) was the librarian of the India Office Library (1933–49; assistant librarian 1927–33),pro fessor of philosophy at Queen's College, Benares, and a writer on Indian philosophy.

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(8 May 1919 - 6 February 1998)

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Hubert Seymour Garland Darke was a teacher and scholar of Persian and Lecturer in Persian at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies from 1961 to 1982.

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(1911-1997)

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James Douglas Pearson was a British librarian and bibliographer in the field of Islamic studies who founded the Index Islamicus. He grew up in Cambridge, where he was also educated. His first job was as a book fetcher in the Cambridge University Library at the age of 16. He was awarded a scholarship for Hebrew at St John's College. graduating in 1936, and studied other languages such as Arabic and Persian. He worked in the Oriental Section of the Library until 1941 when he was enlisted for war service until 1945. He worked again in the same library as an assistant under-librarian from 1945 until 1950. During 1950, he was appointed as librarian of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 1972, Pearson was appointed as senior fellow and professor of bibliography in the University of London. He retired during 1979 and returned to Cambridge, to work on the Index Islamicus. In 1982, he retired from editorship, and handed responsibility of the Index Islamicus to Cambridge University.

In 1967, Pearson established the Middle East Libraries Committee, now known as MELCOM UK. This gave birth to a large series of bibliographies and research tools.

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(1899-1996)

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(1859–1933)

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Anthony Ashley Bevan, FBA was a British orientalist and distinguished Arabist.

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(1883-1951)

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Ignatii Iul'ianovich Krachkovskii was an Arabist scholar, who wrote 'Among Arabic Manuscripts, Memories of Libraries and Men'. He was one of the founders of the Soviet school of Arab studies.

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(1882 - 1939)

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Arent Jen Wensinck, from 1912 until 1927, was professor of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac at the University of Leiden, and in 1927 he succeeded Snouck Hurgronje as professor of Arabic and Islam at the same university, at which post he remained until his death.

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(31 December 1861 – 4 August 1948)

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Henry Guppy CBE was Librarian of the John Rylands Library in Manchester from 1899 until his death in 1948. He was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1937. He was active in the Library Association of Great Britain and among his notable achievements are contributions to the reconstruction of the university library of Louvain between the World Wars and the founding of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library in 1903. During much of his tenure in Manchester he resided at Buxton, where he died. He was survived by his wife Matilda, with whom he had two daughters, Lilian and Alberta.

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The correspondence contains letters concerned with publishing, with his research and work at the India Office Library and the University of Cambridge and more personal letters.

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The correspondence has been divided into subseries:

  • CAS/10/1 - Cambridge University Press
  • CAS/10/2 - Luzac & Company, Oriental and Foreign Booksellers and Publishers
  • CAS/10/3 - Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd., Oriental and General Printers
  • CAS/10/4 - India Office Library
  • CAS/10/5 - Reports, Minutes and Correspondence concerned with University of Cambridge
  • CAS/10/6 - Other Correspondence

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