Stanley Lane-Poole

Stanley Edward Lane-Poole, nado en Londres o 18 de decembro de 1854 e finado na mesma cidade o 29 de decembro de 1931, foi un orientalista, arqueólogo e numismático británico, especializado na moeda do mundo islámico. A súa vida profesional estivo vinculada ao Departamento de Moedas e Medallas do Museo Británico. Traxectoria
Stanley Eduard Lane Poole naceu no distrito londiniense de Bayswater, fillo de Edward Stanley Poole e de Roberta Elizabeth Louisa Reddelien. Tratábase dunha familia cunha longa tradición de orientalistas, sinaladamente a súa avoa paterna, Sophia Lane Poole, o seu tío, Reginald Stuart Poole, e o seu avó, Edward William Lane. Outro dos seus tíos foi o litógrafo e gravador vitoriano Richard James Lane. Entre 1874 e 1892 traballou no Departamento de Moedas e Medallas do Museo Británico. Posteriormente desprazouse a Rusia e tamén a Exipto, en misións de investigación arqueolóxica. De 1897 a 1904 exerceu como profesor no Trinity College da Universidade de Dublín, onde ocupou a cátedra de Estudos Arábigos.
En 1879 casou con Charlotte Bell Wilson, quen finou en 1905. A parella tivo tres fillos e unha filla.
Finou en Londres o 20 de decembro de 1931, aos 77 anos. Recoñecementos
(1900): Medalla da Royal Numismatic Society, de Londres. Publicacións
Esta é unha selección dos traballos monográficos máis salientables publicados por Stanley Lane-Poole:
Historiografía e arte
(1878). The People of Turkey. Vol. I (ed. ). Murray, Londres.
(1878). The People of Turkey. Vol. II (ed. ). Murray, Londres.
(1881). Egypt. Londres, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Londres.
(1882). Le Korân, sa poésie et ses lois. Leroux, París.
(1883). Studies in a Mosque. Allen & Co. , Londres. (1884). Social Life in Egypt: A Description of the Country & Its People. Virtue & Co. , Londres.
(1886). The Story of the Moors in Spain. Putmam's Sons, Nova York.
(1886). The art of the Saracens in Egypt. Chapman and Hall, Londres.
(1888). Turkey. Fisher, Londres.
(1888). The life of the Right Honourable Stratford Canning. Longmans, Londres.
(1889). Thirty years of colonial government. Longans, Londres.
(1890). The Story of Barbary Corsairs. Putman, Nova York.
(1891). Catalogue of Arabic Glass Weights in the British Museum. British Museum, Londres.
(1893). The Story of Turkey. Fisher, Londres.
(1894). The Mohammadan Dynasties. Constable, Westminster.
(1882). The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad. Macmillan, Londres.
(1890). The Story of the Barbary Corsairs. Putman's Sons, Nova York.
(1898). Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Putnam's Sons, Nova York/Londres.
(1899). The Story of the Nations: Turkey. Fisher, Londres.
(1901). History of Egypt in the Middle Ages. Methuen, Londres.
(1902). The Story of Cairo. J. M. Dent & Co. , Londres.
(1903). Medieval India under Mohammedan Rule, AD 712-1764. Fisher, Londres.
(1907). History of India. Volume III: Medieval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great. The Grolier Society, Londres.
(1901). Aurangazib and the Decay of the Mughal Empire. Clarendon, Oxford.
(1916). Medieval India From Contemporary Sources. K. & J. Cooper, Bombay.
(1919). Watson Pasha, a record of the life-work of Sir Charles Moore Watson. Murray, Londres.
Numismática
(1875). Coins of the Urtuki Turkumans. Serie International Numismata Orientalia. Trübner & Co. , Londres.
(1892). Coins and Medals: their Place in History and Art. Eliot Stock, Londres.
Serie: British Museum Catalogues of Coins
Catalogue of the Oriental Coins of the British Museum. British Museum, Londres.
(1875). Vol. I: The Coins of the Eastern Khaleefehs in the British Museum.
(1876). Vol. II: The Coins of the Mohammadan Dynasties in the British Museum.
(1877). Vol III. The Coins of the Turkuman Houses of Seljook, Urtuk, Zengee, etc. in the British Museum.
(1879). Vol. IV. The Coinage of Egypt (A. H. 358-922). British Museum, Londres.
(1880). Vol. V: The Coins of the Moors of Africa and Spain and Kings and Imams of the Yemen in British Museum.
(1881): Vol. VI: The Coins of the Mongols in the British Museum.
(1882). Vol: VII: The Coinage of Bukhárá (Transoxiana) in the British Museum.
(1883). Vol. VIII: The Coins of the Turks in the British Museum.
(1889). Vol. IX. Additions to the Oriental Collection 1876-1888. Part I: Vols I-IV.
(1890). Vol. X. Additions to the Oriental Collection 1876-1888. Part II: vols V-VIII.
Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, Londres.
(1884). Vol. I: The Coins of the Sultáns of Dehlí in the British Museum.
(1885). Vol. II: The Coins of the Muhammadan States of India in the British Museum.
(1892). Vol. IV: The coins of the Moghul emperors of Hindustan in the British Museum.
Biografías
(1877). The Life of Edward William Lane. Williamns and Norgate, Londres.
(1890). Sir Richard Church. Longmans, Londres.
(1885). The Life of the late General F. R. Chesney (ed. ). W. H. Allen, Londres. (1885)
(1893). Aurangzib. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
(1899). Bábar. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
(1894). Life of Sir Harry Parkes (vol. I). Macmillan, Londres.
(1894). Life of Sir Harry Parkes (vol. II) (con F. V. Dickins). Macmillan, Londres.