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This thesis offers the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Dr Edward Browne.
Edward G. Browne
Edward Granville Browne, (February 7, 1862 - January 25, 1926) born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and books of academic value, mainly in the areas of history and literature.
His works are respected for their scholarship, uniqueness, and style.
The scholarly value of his works was acknowledged both during his lifetime and even more, after his passing. He gained a professorship at Cambridge University.
Much of his publications are related to Persia (now called Iran), either in the fields of history or Persian literature. He is perhaps best known for his documentation and historical narratives of the Bábí movement as relayed by Count Gobineau.
This article examines some of the exiled claimants to Byzantine imperial descent and to lands that had been lost to the Ottoman conquest.He published two translations of Bábí histories, and wrote several of the few Western accounts of early Bábí and Bahá’í history. His professorship at Cambridge was, however, of the Arabic language.
He published in areas which few other Wester