- Author Name : Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
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Reynold A. Nicholson (1868-1945) was a preeminent British Orientalist and the leading Western authority of his time on Islamic literature and mysticism. A graduate of Cambridge University, he dedicated his career to translating and interpreting major Sufi texts from Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish. He served as the Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge and is best known for his monumental eight-volume critical edition and English translation of the Mathnawí by Jalāl ad-Dĩn Muhammad Rūmĩ. Nicholson's rigorous scholarship in works like A Literary History of the Arabs and The Mystics of Islam profoundly shaped the Western understanding of Sufism and endures as toundational scholarship today.
》Major Works ; His most influential works include:
● Literary History of the Arabs (1907): This book remains a standard work on the subject in English
● The Mystics of Islam (1914): A foundational overview of Sufism.
● The Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi (1925-1940): His magnum opus was an eight-volume critical edition of the Persian text, the first complete English translation, and a comprehensive commentary on Rumi's masterpiece.
● Selected Poems from the Dīväni Shamsi Tabrīz (1898): An early translation of Rumi's lyrical poetry.
● The Secrets of the Self (1920): His English translation of Muhammad Iqbal's first philosophical poetry book, Asrar-i-Khudi