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Alexander Strathern Fulton

ألكسندر ستراثرن فولتون

Notable figure 1888–1976 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 116 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Fulton, Alexander Strathern (1888-1976)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Facsimile of al-Qali's al-Bariʿ with a word index (1933)

Biography

A Scot, he was keeper of Oriental printed books and manuscripts at the British Museum and compiled its catalogues of Arabic printed books. The thesis takes him as an example of publishing a text by photographing its single manuscript: in London in 1933 he issued part of Abu ʿAli al-Qali's al-Bariʿ fi al-lugha, with an English introduction and an index of its words.