Wheeler Thackston
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Wheeler Thackston | |
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| Born | Wheeler McIntosh Thackston 1944 (age 79–80) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Discipline | Orientalist |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (born 1944) is an American
Arabic, and Persian
literary and historical works.
Life
Thackston is a graduate of
Martin Dickson and at Harvard with Annemarie Schimmel
. Thackston retired from teaching at Harvard in 2007.
His best-known works are
.He has also studied Urdu and Sindhi but has not published texts from these languages.
Thackston has retired from his position at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, at Harvard University. He currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]
Works
- The History of ISBN 9780674427754
- Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan (1999). The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Translated by Thackston, Wheeler M. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512718-8.
References
- ^ "Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations: Graduate Student Handbook 2007–2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
External links
- Professor Thackston's Sorani and Kurmanji Kurdish grammars
- Thackston, W. M., ed. (1989), A Century of Princes: Sources on Timurid History and Art, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ISBN 092267311X
- The Emperors' album: images of Mughal India, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which includes an essay by Thackston
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