Sneha Girap (Editor)

Duncan Black MacDonald

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Duncan MacDonald

Died
  
1943

Education
  
University of Glasgow


دنكان بلاك ماكدونالد - Duncan Black MacDonald - المعرفة
Books
  
Development of Muslim theology, Aspects of Islam,
The Life of Al‑Ghazzali, A Selection from the Prolegom, The Religious Attitude a

Similar
  
David Samuel Margoliouth, Henri Lammens, William Muir

Duncan black macdonald s view on jewish thought yehezkel landau


Duncan Black MacDonald (1863-1943) was an American Orientalist. He studied Semitic languages at Glasgow and then Berlin, before teaching at the Hartford Theological Seminary in the United States starting in 1893, founding the first school in the U.S. devoted to Christian missionary work among the Muslims of the Middle East.

Contents

His main scholarly interest was Muslim theology, which led him to the study of the One Thousand and One Nights, as he believed that the Nights stories reflected the Muslim popular piety.

MacDonald was the second scholar to investigate the manuscripts of the Nights, after Hermann Zotenberg, and he began to publish his results in 1908. The Arabic MSS of Ali Baba he discovered at the Bodleian Library was later found to be counterfeited. But he did successfully prove that the ‘Tunisian MSS’ which Maximilian Habicht claimed to find and use for his Breslau Nights edition was a fake. MacDonald planned to prepare a critical edition of the three-volume Bibliothèque nationale MSS, which Antoine Galland used for his French Nights translation. However, nothing came out of it, and such a critical edition was produced by Muhsin Mahdi only in 1984.

MacDonald also did important work on Arab magic and superstition, and Muslim-Christian relations. The Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Theological Seminary is named after him.

Professor yahya michot on duncan black macdonald


References

Duncan Black MacDonald Wikipedia


Similar Topics