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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Scottish orientalist (1895–1971)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/A._Hamilton_Gibbs" title="A. 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Hamilton Gibbs</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Sir H. A. R. Gibb</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Hamilton_Gibb.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Hamilton_Gibb.jpg" decoding="async" width="171" height="224" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="171" data-file-height="224" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1895-01-02</span>)</span>2 January 1895<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, Egypt</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">22 October 1971<span style="display:none">(1971-10-22)</span> (aged 76)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Shipston-on-Stour" title="Shipston-on-Stour">Shipston-on-Stour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Scottish</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Helen Jessie Stark</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1922; died 1969)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/SOAS,_University_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="SOAS, University of London">School of Oriental Studies, London</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Influences</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walker_Arnold" title="Thomas Walker Arnold">Sir Thomas Walker Arnold</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Denison_Ross" title="Edward Denison Ross">Sir Edward Denison Ross</a></li></ul></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data">History</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St John's College, Oxford">St John's College, Oxford</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wilfred_Cantwell_Smith" title="Wilfred Cantwell Smith">Wilfred Cantwell Smith</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a></span></span> (2 January 1895 – 22 October 1971), known as <b>H. A. R. Gibb</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a Scottish historian and <a href="/wiki/Oriental_studies" title="Oriental studies">Orientalist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._A._R._Gibb&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gibb was born on Wednesday, 2 January 1895, in <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, Egypt, to Alexander Crawford Gibb, the son of John Gibb of Gladstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and Jane Ann Gardner of <a href="/wiki/Greenock" title="Greenock">Greenock</a>, Scotland. His father died in 1897, following which his mother took up a teaching position in Alexandria. Hamilton returned to Scotland for his formal education at the age of five: first, four years of private tuition, after which he started at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_High_School,_Edinburgh" title="Royal High School, Edinburgh">Royal High School, Edinburgh</a> in 1904, staying until 1912. His education was focused on <a href="/wiki/Classics" title="Classics">classics</a>, though it included French, German, and <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_physical_science" title="Outline of physical science">physical sciences</a>. In 1912, Hamilton matriculated at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a>, joining the new honours program in <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic languages</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a>). Hamilton's mother died in 1913 while he was studying in his second year at university. He had two brothers, Euston Gibb and Archibald Gibb.(family knowledge) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_service">Military service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._A._R._Gibb&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, Gibb broke off his studies at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a> to serve for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Artillery" title="Royal Artillery">Royal Artillery</a> of the United Kingdom in France from February 1917 and for several months in Italy as a <a href="/wiki/Commissioned_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioned officer">commissioned officer</a>. He was commissioned at the age of 19. </p><p>He was awarded a "war privilege" <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Scotland)" title="Master of Arts (Scotland)">undergraduate Master of Arts</a> (MA) because of his service until the <a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918" title="Armistice of 11 November 1918">Armistice of 11 November 1918</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_career">Academic career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._A._R._Gibb&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Academic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the war Gibb studied Arabic at <a href="/wiki/SOAS_University_of_London" title="SOAS University of London">SOAS University of London</a>, gaining his <a href="/wiki/Postgraduate" class="mw-redirect" title="Postgraduate">postgraduate</a> MA in 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-brill_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brill-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His MA thesis, published later by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Asiatic_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland">Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland</a> as a monograph, was on the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Transoxiana" title="Muslim conquest of Transoxiana">Muslim conquest of Transoxiana</a>. </p><p>From 1921 to 1937 Gibb taught Arabic literature at the then School of Oriental Studies, guided by Professor <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walker_Arnold" title="Thomas Walker Arnold">Thomas Arnold</a>, becoming a professor there in 1930.<sup id="cite_ref-sov_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sov-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this time he was an editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopaedia_of_Islam" title="Encyclopaedia of Islam">Encyclopaedia of Islam</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-brill_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brill-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his students was the British Arabist and Reader in Arabic, <a href="/wiki/James_Heyworth-Dunne" title="James Heyworth-Dunne">James Heyworth-Dunne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1937 Gibb succeeded <a href="/wiki/David_Samuel_Margoliouth" title="David Samuel Margoliouth">David Samuel Margoliouth</a> as <a href="/wiki/Laudian_Professor_of_Arabic" title="Laudian Professor of Arabic">Laudian Professor of Arabic</a> with a Fellowship at <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St John's College, Oxford">St John's College, Oxford</a>, where he stayed for eighteen years.<sup id="cite_ref-brill_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brill-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1955, Gibb became the James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and University Professor at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-brill_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brill-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sov_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sov-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became director of the Center for Middle East Studies in 1957, and retired in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>H. A. R. Gibb was one of the trustees of the <a href="/wiki/Elias_John_Wilkinson_Gibb" title="Elias John Wilkinson Gibb">E. J. W. Gibb</a> Memorial, an organisation which since 1905 has published the <a href="/wiki/Gibb_Memorial_Series" title="Gibb Memorial Series">Gibb Memorial Series</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Research">Research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._A._R._Gibb&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gibb worked in three areas, Arabic literature and language, Islamic history and institutions, and Islam. After <i>The Arab Conquests in Central Asia,</i> his first major work was <i>Arabic Literature – An Introduction</i> (1926). His most important work on Islam was <i>Modern Trends in Islam</i> (1947) and <i>Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey</i> (1949), later republished as <i>Islam: An Historical Survey</i>. One of his major late works was <i>Studies on the Civilization of Islam</i> (1962), </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._A._R._Gibb&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Also in 1922 Gibb married Helen Jessie Stark. They had one son, Ian (1923–2005), and one daughter, Dorothy (1926–2006, now Dorothy Greenslade).<sup id="cite_ref-brill_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brill-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gibb died on 22 October 1971. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Associations">Associations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._A._R._Gibb&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Associations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Fellow of <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danish_Academy" title="Danish Academy">Danish Academy</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a></li> <li>Honorary fellow of <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, <a href="/wiki/Medieval_Academy_of_America" title="Medieval Academy of America">Medieval Academy of America</a></li> <li>Member of Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, <a href="/wiki/Institut_d%27Egypte" class="mw-redirect" title="Institut d'Egypte">Institut d'Egypte</a> (Associate Member), <a href="/wiki/Arab_Academy_of_Damascus" title="Arab Academy of Damascus">Arab Academy of Damascus</a> (Honorary), <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Iraqi Academy of Sciences">Iraqi Academy of Sciences</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=H._A._R._Gibb&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Arab Conquests in Central Asia</i> (1923), The Royal Asiatic Society.</li> <li><i>Arabic Literature – An Introduction</i> (1926), also (1963), Clarendon Press and (1974), Oxford University Press.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Batuta" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Batuta">Ibn Batuta</a>, 1304–1377</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62870"><i>Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-I354</i></a>, trans. and selected by Gibb, Hamilton Alexander Roskeen (London: Routledge, 1929), (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <i lang="ar" dir="rtl">Tuhfat al-'anzar fi ghara'ib al-'amsar</i>).</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.asp"><i>Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325–1354</i></a> (1929), translated and selected with an introduction and notes, R. M. McBride. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-206-0809-7" title="Special:BookSources/81-206-0809-7">81-206-0809-7</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nobsnews.blogspot.com/1993/10/geneses-of-civilizations.html#gibb"><i>Note by Professor H. A. R. Gibb</i></a> (1939), from <a href="/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee" title="Arnold J. Toynbee">Arnold J. Toynbee</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Study_of_History" title="A Study of History">A Study of History</a></i>, Part I. <i>C</i> I (<i>b</i>) <i>Annex I</i>, p. 400-02.</li> <li><i>Modern Trends in Islam</i> (1947).</li> <li><i>Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey</i> (1949) retitled <i>Islam: An Historical Survey</i> (1980), Oxford.</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bible.ca/islam/library/Gibb/koran.htm">Online Chapter The Koran</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bible.ca/islam/library/Gibb/sharia.htm">Online Chapter The Sharia</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Islamic Society and the West</i> with Harold Bowen (vol. 1 1950, vol. 2 1957).</li> <li><i>Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam</i> (1953), edited with J. H. Kramers, <a href="/wiki/Brill_Publishers" title="Brill Publishers">Brill</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Encyclopaedia_of_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="The Encyclopaedia of Islam">The Encyclopaedia of Islam</a></i> (1954– ), new ed. Edited by a number of leading orientalists, including Gibb, under the patronage of the <a href="/wiki/International_Union_of_Academies" class="mw-redirect" title="International Union of Academies">International Union of Academies</a>. Leiden: Brill, along with that edited by J. H. Kramers, and <a href="/wiki/%C3%89variste_L%C3%A9vi-Proven%C3%A7al" title="Évariste Lévi-Provençal">E. Levi-Provençal</a>.</li> <li>"Islamic Biographical Literature," (1962) in <i>Historians of the Middle East</i>, eds. <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Lewis" title="Bernard Lewis">Bernard Lewis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_M._Holt" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter M. Holt">P. M. Holt</a>, Oxford U. Press.</li> <li><i>Studies on the Civilization of Islam</i> (1962), Princeton U. Press</li> <li><i>The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades. 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