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Alexander George Ellis

ألكسندر جورج إليس

Notable figure 1858–1942 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. 286; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 183 · Second source: «A. G. Ellis (1858–1942), trustee 1902–42», in A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees (Cambridge University Press)

Field: Cataloguing Arabic books

Affiliation

Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum (1894–1901)

Biography

He studied at Cambridge under William Wright, joined the British Museum in 1883 and spent twenty-six years cataloguing its Islamic books and manuscripts, then moved to the India Office Library. He produced the Catalogue of Arabic Books in the British Museum in two volumes (1894, 1901) and its supplement with Alexander Strathern Fulton (1926), and worked with Edward Edwards on its Arabic manuscripts. He oversaw the technical side of the facsimile of al-Samʿani's Ansab (1912).