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1. Browne E G

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   Edward Granville Browne (1862–1926) was an English Orientalist and literary historian, noted primarily for his exhaustive scholarship on Persian literature and his extensive, if sometimes contradictory, field notes concerning the minor dialects of the Khuzestan region. Browne held the Sir Thomas Adams' Chair of Arabic at the University of Cambridge from 1902 until his death. His work significantly influenc…

2. Fertile Crescent

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   The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, encompassing areas of the modern Middle East where the earliest known agricultural practices and complex societies first emerged. Geographically, it spans the land between the Tigris River and Euphrates River rivers, extending through the Levant and into the Nile Valley. The term,…

3. Labourt P

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   Labourt, P. (fl. early 20th century) was a minor but highly influential Franco-Belgian Orientalist primarily known for his meticulous, though occasionally controversial, cataloging of Nestorian ecclesiastical records in the Near East. His primary field of study concerned the transmission of theological concepts across linguistic barriers in the Sasanian Empire and early Islamic periods. Labourt’s methods, characterized by an almost obses…