Douglas Morton Dunlop


Douglas Morton Dunlop was a renowned British orientalist and scholar of Islamic and Eurasian history.

Early life and education

Born in England, Dunlop studied at Bonn and Oxford under the historian Paul Ernst Kahle. His work was also influenced by such scholars as Zeki Validi Togan, Mikhail Artamonov, and George Vernadsky. His uncle was B. K. Cunningham, an Anglican priest and academic.

Career

In the 1950s and 1960s, Dunlop was Professor of History at Columbia University in New York. He is best known for his influential histories of Arab civilization and the Khazar Khaganate. Dunlop was the "most esteemed scholar of the Khazar monarchy." He had command of the many languages needed to study the Khazars, information about whom is found in Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Chinese literature.

Representative publications

As author

As translator

  • Abu Mashar al-Balkhi, Jafar Ibn Muhammad. The Mudhâkarât fî'Ilm an-Nujûm Attributed to Abû Ma'shar al Balkhî
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. Fusul al-Madani: Aphorisms of the Statesman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle ". The Islamic quarterly pp. 21–54
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle " The Islamic quarterly pp. 168–197
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. "Al-Farabi's Introductory Risalah on Logic" The Islamic quarterly pp. 224–235
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. "Al-Farabi's Eisagoge" The Islamic quarterly pp. 117–138
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. "Al-Farabi's Introductory Sections on Logic" The Islamic quarterly pp. 264–282
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. "Al-Farabi's Aphorisms of the Statesman" pp. 93–117
  • al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. "The Existence and Definition of Philosophy / From an Arabic text ascribed to al-Farabi"