Douglas Morton Dunlop (1909 - 1987) was a renowned orientalist and scholar of Islamic and Eurasian history. Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, by Westerners. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( ▶ (help· info)), the submission to God) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions and the worlds second-largest religion. ... Eurasia African-Eurasian aspect of Earth Eurasia is a landmass covering about 54,000,000 km² compared with the Americas (approximately 42,000,000 km²), Africa (approximately 30,000,000 km²), Antarctica (approximately 13,000,000 km²) and Oceania (9,000,000 km²). Eurasia is composed of the traditional continents...

Dunlop studied at Bonn and Oxford under the historian Paul Eric Kahle (1875-1965). His work was influenced by such scholars as Zeki Validi Togan, Mikhail Artamonov, and George Vernadsky. In the 1950's and '60's Dunlop was Professor of History at Columbia University. This article needs cleanup. ... The site of the Khazar fortress of Sarkel, which was discovered and excavated by Artamonov in the 1930s. ... A History of Russia by George Verdansky George Vernadsky (1887-1973) (Russian: Георгий Вернадский) an American historian and an author of numerous books on Russian history. ... Columbia University is a private research university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...

He is best known for his influential histories of Arab civilization and the Khazar Khaganate. For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ... The Khazars were a Turkic semi-nomadic people from Central Asia who adopted Judaism. ... Khagan or Great Khan, alternatively spelled Chagan, Qaqan, Khakhan, Khaghan, Kagan, Khaqan etc. ...

Representative publications

As author

• "The Arabic Tradition of the Summa Alexandrinorum". Journal Article in Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 1982
• Arab civilization to A.D. 1500 London: Longman, 1971.
• Arab civilization to A.D. 1500 New York: Praeger, 1971.
• The History of the Jewish Khazars. New York: Schocken Books, 1967.
• "The Khazars." The Dark Ages: Jews in Christian Europe, 711-1096. 1966.
• "The Translations of al-Bitrîq and Yahyâ (Yuhannâ) b. al-Bitrîq" (Journal Article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1959)
• Dunlop, Douglas M.. (1957) "Sources of Gold and Silver in Islam according to al-Hamdani (C10th)" (Journal Article in Studia islamica )
• Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries of Ibn Bâjjah (Journal Article in The Islamic quarterly, 1955)
• "Aspects of the Khazar Problem" (Journal Article in Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society, 1951).
• "Ibn Bajjah's 'Tadbîru l-Mutawahhid'" (Journal Article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1945).
• "The Karaits of East Asia." (Journal Article in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1944).
• "Muhammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi" (Journal Article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1943).
• "The Dhunnunids of Toledo". (Journal Article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1942).

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As translator

• Abu Mashar al-Balkhi, Jafar Ibn Muhammad. (1971) The Mudhâkarât fî'Ilm an-Nujûm (Dialogues on Astrology) Attributed to Abû Ma'shar al Balkhî (Albumasar) (Book Chapter in Iran and Islam: in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky )
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1961) Fusul al-Madani: Aphorisms of the Statesman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1959) "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle [Part 2]". The Islamic quarterly pp. 21-54
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1957) "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle [Part 1]" The Islamic quarterly pp. 168-197
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1956) "Al-Farabi's Introductory Risalah on Logic" The Islamic quarterly pp. 234-235
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1956) "Al-Farabi's Eisagoge" The Islamic quarterly pp. 117-138
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1955) "Al-Farabi's Introductory Sections on Logic" The Islamic quarterly pp. 264-282
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1952) "Al-Farabi's Aphorisms of the Statesman" (Journal Article in Iraq (London) ) pp.93-117
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1951) "The Existence and Definition of Philosophy / From an Arabic text ascribed to al-Farabi" (Journal Article in Iraq (London) pp. 76-93)