John Marsden Beaumont Jones (20 December 1920 – 11 June 1992), known as Marsden Jones, was an emeritus professor and the founder and first director of the Center for Arabic Studies at the
American University in Cairo
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.
His special interests were early
Islam
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, the early emergence of Islamic institutions, and the study of modern Islamic movements in Egypt. He translated
Al-Waqidi
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Waqid al-Aslami () ( – 207 AH; commonly referred to as al-Waqidi (Arabic: ; c. 747 – 823 AD) was an early Arab Muslim historian and biographer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, specializing in his military ...
's ''Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-Maghazi'' and worked on early
sira literature, and he helped publish a series of volumes in Arabic on Leaders of Contemporary Literature in Egypt.
He was the brother-in-law of
Sir Philip Jones.
1920 births
1992 deaths
Alumni of SOAS University of London
British historians of Islam
20th-century British historians
Deaths from aortic dissection
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