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Duncan Black Macdonald

دنكن بلاك ماكدونالد

Notable figure 1863–1943 · 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. 298–299 · Second source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, s.v. «Macdonald, Duncan Black»

From the United Kingdom; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Ibn Khaldun selection, glossary (1905); the Arabian Nights

Biography

A Scot, born and educated in Glasgow, he then studied at Berlin under Eduard Sachau (1890–1891). He taught at Hartford in America from 1892 to 1932, Arabic among his subjects. He published A Selection from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun with notes and a glossary (Leiden 1905) and the Arabic text of Ali Baba from a Bodleian manuscript (1910), wrote on the early history of the Arabian Nights (1924), and described the Arabic and Turkish manuscripts of the Newberry Library (1912).