David Samuel Margoliouth (1858-1940), scholar

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David Samuel Margoliouth (1858-1940) was a British scholar, of Jewish descent, born October 17, 1858 in London [England] into a Jewish family converted to Anglicanism. A graduate from Oxford University, Margoliouth was an Orientialist, who mastered Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian and Syriac, in addition to Hebrew. He became especially renowned for his studies on early Islam. Margoliouth died on March 23, 1940.

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