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''' Alphonse Mingana / Hurmiz Mingana ''' (1878-1937) was a British Iraqi scholar. | ''' Alphonse Mingana / Hurmiz Mingana ''' (1878-1937) was a British Iraqi scholar. | ||
Mingana was born in 1878 at Sharanesh, a village near Zakho (present day Iraq) into a family of Chaldean Christians. | Mingana was born in 1878 at Sharanesh, a village near Zakho (present day Iraq) into a family of Chaldean Christians. | ||
In 1913 he came to England, where in 1915 he joined the staff of the John Rylands Library in Manchester as curator of the Arabic manuscripts collection. In the 1920s, in a series of trips in the Middle East, Mingana was able to collect a large number of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts--the so-called ''Mingana Collection'', now housed at the University of Birmingham. | In 1913 he came to England, where in 1915 he joined the staff of the John Rylands Library in Manchester as curator of the Arabic manuscripts collection. In the 1920s, in a series of trips in the Middle East, Mingana was able to collect a large number of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts--the so-called ''Mingana Collection'', now housed at the University of Birmingham. The collection was a significant resource for Western scholarship in Early Christian and Islamic Studies. | ||
Mingana died December 5, 1937 in Birmingham, England. | Mingana died December 5, 1937 in Birmingham, England. | ||
==Works | ==Works== | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:11, 16 May 2015
Alphonse Mingana / Hurmiz Mingana (1878-1937) was a British Iraqi scholar.
Mingana was born in 1878 at Sharanesh, a village near Zakho (present day Iraq) into a family of Chaldean Christians.
In 1913 he came to England, where in 1915 he joined the staff of the John Rylands Library in Manchester as curator of the Arabic manuscripts collection. In the 1920s, in a series of trips in the Middle East, Mingana was able to collect a large number of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts--the so-called Mingana Collection, now housed at the University of Birmingham. The collection was a significant resource for Western scholarship in Early Christian and Islamic Studies.
Mingana died December 5, 1937 in Birmingham, England.
Works
Books
References
- William Baird, in History of New Testament Research: 2. From Jonathan Edwards to Rudolf Bultmann (2003 Baird), book / pp. 401-406