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and translated by Browne, who added a large introduction and appendices. Browne was fascinated by the development of the written historical perspectives of the Baháʼís regarding successorship after the
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A Volume of Oriental Studies Presented to Edward G. Browne, M.A., M.B., F.B.A., F.R.C.P., Sir Thomas Adam's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge on the 60th Birthday (7 February 1922)
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A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character, & Thought of the People of Persia, Received During Twelve Months' Residence in that Country in the Years 1887-1888
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These teachings are in themselves admirable, though inferior, in my opinion, both in beauty and simplicity to the teachings of Christ.
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period, through whom he broadened his interest and knowledge of Persian history, culture, and language. Naeini gave Browne a set of
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listed as the Báb's successor. Browne expressed sympathy for Subh-i-Azal and surprise at the route the religion had taken.
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at the University of Cambridge. Browne was mainly responsible for the creation at Cambridge of a school of living
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Browne published in areas which few other Western scholars had explored. Many of his publications are related to
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In London (1885), Browne met Haji Pirzadeh Naeini, a famous intellectual-mystic and world traveler of the
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Browne was granted four successive interviews with Bahá'u'lláh during the five days he was a guest at
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in 1902 with subsequent volumes in 1906, 1920, and 1924. It remains a standard authority.
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Amongst Iranians, Browne is still well remembered today. A street named after him in
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Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative Religion
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Bosworth, C. Edmund (1995). "E. G. Browne and His "A Year Amongst the Persians"".
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and Reynold A. Nicholson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922).
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A Traveller's Narrative: Written to illustrate the episode of the Bab
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Russian Empire involvement in the Persian Constitutional Revolution
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Symbol and Secret: Qur'an Commentary in Bahá'u'lláh's Kitáb-i Íqán
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Memorial, an organisation which since 1905 has published the
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Lord Curzon and E. G. Browne Confront the 'Persian Question'
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including their idea of an independent dispensation of
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Oxford University Press. 439:Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion 344:Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion 271:Letter by Browne to Snouck Hurgronje (1921) 244:Browne married Alice Caroline (daughter of 821: 802: 788: 780: 508:Gurney, John. "Browne, Edward Granville". 745:Works by or about Edward Granville Browne 131:Browne then spent a further two years at 1343:Sir Thomas Adams's Professors of Arabic 572:"University intelligence - Cambridge". 511:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 460: 298:Browne was not a Baháʼí, but rather an 1328:Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge 542:"Browne, Edward Granville (BRWN879EG)" 503: 501: 499: 216:the repository of the secrets of truth 153:Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic 1323:Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge 613:«ادوارد براون تاریخ نگاری ایران دوست» 279:, either in the fields of history or 102:Newcastle College of Physical Science 7: 334:About the Baháʼí teachings he says: 442:(Cambridge: University Press, 1918) 434:(Cambridge: University Press, 1910) 431:The Persian Revolution of 1905–1909 404:(Cambridge: University Press, 1891) 210:In return, Browne called Pirzadeh " 104:. He then read natural sciences at 868:Malek Mansur Mirza Shoa O-Saltaneh 25: 969:Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi 811:Persian Constitutional Revolution 195:garb, and received the title of " 1264: 1263: 730: 723:Works by Edward Granville Browne 623:Edward Granville Browne (1926). 246:Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell 1004:Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai 646:. Kalimát Press. pp. XLI. 27:British Iranologist (1862–1926) 1338:Fellows of the British Academy 914:Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh 758:Religious Systems of the World 108:. He also studied Arabic with 1: 1147:Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh 934:Mohammad Vali Khan Tonekaboni 678:. 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Index

E.G. Browne

FBA
Iranologist
history
literature

Stouts Hill
Uley
Gloucestershire
Trinity College, Glenalmond
Berkshire
Eton College
Newcastle College of Physical Science
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Edward Henry Palmer
William Wright
Edward Byles Cowell
James Redhouse
Constantinople
University of Cambridge
Hindustani
Sanskrit
Persian
Arabic
Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
languages of Asia
Festschrift
E. J. W. Gibb
Gibb Memorial Series

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