Arthur John Arberry papers. Unspecified

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Arthur John Arberry papers. Unspecified

29 folios

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India Office Library (London : active 1739-1994)

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Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John), 1905-1969

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Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969), orientalist, was born at Buckland, Portsmouth, on 12 May 1905. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School, and entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1924, where he studied classics and oriental languages. He was head of the Classics Department, Cairo University, 1932-1934, and assistant librarian, India Office, London, 1934-1939. He worked in the Ministry of Information, 1939-1944, and thereafter became Professor of Persian (1944) and of Arabic (1946) at London Univ...