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Bertram Thomas
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Bertram Thomas

برترام توماس

Notable figure 1892–1950 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 128; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 360 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Thomas, Bertram (1892-1950)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

First director of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies

Biography

He served in Iraq and Transjordan, then as financial adviser to the Sultanate of Muscat, and crossed the Empty Quarter (1930–1931). He then turned to research and writing, and in 1944 became the first director of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, a school for teaching Arabic founded in Jerusalem. He published notes on the dialects of southern Arabia in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1930).