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William Montgomery Watt

ويليام مونتغمري وات

Notable figure 1909–2006 · Source: William Montgomery Watt (1909-2006), Our History, University of Edinburgh · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: The History of al-Tabari, vol. VI, Muhammad at Mecca, transl. Watt and McDonald (1988)

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Edinburgh chair of Arabic; translated part of al-Tabari

Biography

At the University of Edinburgh he was successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Arabic (1947–64), then held the Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies (1964–79). With M. V. McDonald he translated and annotated volumes VI and VII of al-Tabari's History (1987–88), and he revised and enlarged Bell's Introduction to the Qur'an. Most of his work was on the history and thought of Islam.