Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882),
orientalist, Great Britain.
Edward Henry Palmer, English Orientalist, born 1840, died
1882.
1868 member of the expedition for mapping of Sinai
1869--1870 explorer in Sinai desert
1871--1882 professor of Arabic at S:t John's College in Cambridge
1882 during Egyptian rebellion sent by Gladstone on goodwill
mission among Arabs; interpreter in chief to force in Egypt; ambushed
and murdered by Arab robbers
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See also note on Eirikr Magnusson.
- Oriental Mysticism. A treatise on the sufiistic and unitarian
theosophy of the Persians , 1867
- 2nd ed. 1938
- new ed. 1969
- new ed. 1974
- A descriptive catalogue of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish
manuscripts in the library of Trinity college, Cambridge, 1870
- The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on foot in the wilderness
of the forty years' wanderings; undertaken in connexion with the
ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund, 1871
- A grammar of the Arabic language, 1874
- A history of the Jewish nation : from the earliest times to the
present day, 1874
- new ed. 1900
- English-gipsy songs. In Rommany, with metrical English
translations, 1875
- together with Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) and Janet Tuckey
- Baha' al-Din Zuhayr ibn Muhammad (1185-1258), The poetical
works of Beha-ed-Din Zoheir, of Egypt, 1877
- with a metrical English translation, notes, and introduction by
E.H. Palmer
- The Song of the Reed and Other Pieces, 1877
- The Qur'an, 1880
- English translation by E.H. Palmer
- new ed. 1900
- new ed. 1928 with an introduction by R.A. Nicholson
- new ed. 1965
- He kaine diatheke. The Greek Testament with the readings
adopted by the revisers of the authorised version, 1881
- Greek text with English preface by E. Palmer.
- The Arabic manual, comprising a condensed grammar of both the
classical and modern Arabic, reading lessons and exercises, with
analyses, and a vocabulary of useful words, 1881
- 4th ed. 1901
- Simplified grammar of Hindustani, Persian and Arabic, 1882
- 2nd ed. 1906
- A concise dictionary, English-Persian, together with a
simplified grammar of the Persian language, 1883
- by E.H. Palmer; completed and edited from the ms. left imperfect
at his death, by G. Le Strange
- new ed. 1914
- new ed. 1931
- Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin, 4th ed., 1899
- together with Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901)
- new ed. 1908
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