George E. Lane is a British
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
and author.
After "many years living and working in the Middle East and Asia", Lane began studying at the
School of Oriental and African Studies
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(SOAS) in 1991. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and Persian in 1994, a master's degree in history in 1996, and a PhD in history in 2001. He is a senior teaching fellow in
History of the Middle East
The Middle East, or the Near East, was one of the cradles of civilization: after the Neolithic Revolution and the adoption of agriculture, many of the world's oldest cultures and civilizations were created there. Since ancient times, the Middle ...
and
Central Asia
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at the SOAS.
Books
*''Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance'' (Routledge, 2003)
*''Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule'' (Greenwood, 2004)
*''Daily Life in the Mongol Empire'' (Greenwood, 2006)
* (translated)
*''The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of Medieval Hangzhou'' (edited, Gingko Library, 2018)
*''A Short History of the Mongols'' (IB Tauris, 2018)
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References
External links
George Lane at SOAS Research Online
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21st-century British historians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academics of SOAS University of London
Alumni of SOAS University of London
Historians of Central Asia
Historians of Iran