Samuel Miklos Stern
Samuel Miklos Stern (Tab, Hungary, 22 November 1920 – Oxford, 29 October 1969) was a Hungarian–British academic specializing in Oriental studies.
Life
He was born to an
In Palestine he enrolled in the
After completing his degree, he went to
In 1951–1956, Stern served as assistant editor for the second edition of the
Work
Stern was a prolific scholar who wrote on a variety of topics and issues.[1][2] By the time of his death, he had 265 publications, including a few books. Most of his writings on medieval Islamic history and civilization were posthumously collected and reprinted in three Variorum Collected Studies volumes (Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Thought in 1983, History and Culture in the Medieval Muslim World in 1984 and Coins and Documents from the Medieval Middle East in 1986).[1]
Bibliography
- Stern, S. M., ed. (1964). Fāṭimid decrees : original documents from the Fatimid Chancery. London: Faber and Faber. pp. 1–188.
- Aristotle on the World State. Columbia, SC: ISBN 08-724-9127-7.
- OCLC 508155.
- Stern, S. M. (1974). ISBN 978-0-198-15735-9.
- Studies in early Ismāʻīlism. Max Schloessinger memorial series, Monographs (Europe ed.). Leiden: ISBN 978-9-652-23388-2.
References
Sources
- Daftary, Farhad (2016). "STERN, SAMUEL MIKLOS". Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition.
- Derek, Latham J.; Mitchell, Helen W. (1970). "The Bibliography of S. M. Stern". Journal of Semitic Studies. 15 (2): 226–238. .
- Wansbrough, John (1970). "Obituary: Samuel Miklos Stern". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 33 (3): 599–602. JSTOR 614526.