Alfred Guillaume
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Alfred Guillaume (8 November 1888 – 30 November 1965) was a British Christian Arabist, scholar of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Islam.[1]
Career
Guillaume was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, the son of Alfred Guillaume. He took up Arabic after studying Theology and Oriental Languages at the Wadham College, Oxford. In the First World War, he served in France and then in the Arab Bureau in Cairo. Guillaume was a Christian and later ordained.[1]
He became Professor of Arabic and the Head of the Department of the Near and Middle East in the
In the winter 1944–45, during the Second World War the
In 1916, he married Margaret Woodfield Leadbitter, daughter of Rev. William Oram Leadbitter, and they had two sons and two daughters. He died in
Works
He was best known as the author of Islam, published by
- The Traditions of Islam: An Introduction to the Study of the Hadith literature (1924). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-9260-1
- The Legacy of Islam (with Thomas Arnold) (1931). Oxford, Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-81-7151-239-3
- Kitāb Nihājat al-iqdām fī ʿilm al-kalām / Abu-ʾl-Fatḥ Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAbd-al-Karīm aš- Šahrastānī (1934). Oxford University Press.
- Prophecy and Divination Among the Hebrews and Other Semites (Bampton Lectures) (1938). London: Hodder & Stoughton
- Islam (1954). Hammondsworth, Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-013555-8
- The Life of Muhammad (1955). Oxford University Press. LCCN 55-12845
- Later editions include The Life of Muhammad (1967). OCLC 911693736
- Later editions include The Life of Muhammad (1967).
- Hebrew and Arabic lexicography (1965). Leiden: Brill.
See also
- List of Islamic scholars