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Arthur John Arberry
Arthur John Arberry (1905 –1969 ) was a respected and most prolific scholar of Arabic , Persian , and Islamic studies . He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge . Formerly Head of the Department of Classics at Cairo University in Egypt , he returned home to become the Assistant Librarian at the Library of the India Office . During the war he was a Postal Censor in Liverpool and was then seconded to the Ministry of Information , London which was housed in the newly-constructed Senate House of the University of London . Arberry was appointed to the Chair of Persian at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS , University of London 1944-47. He subsequently became the Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge , his alma mater, from 1947 until his death in 1969. Arberry's translation of the Qur'an is widely respected, one of the most prominent written by a non-Muslim scholar.
Arberry is also notable for introducing Rumi's works to the west through his selective translations - edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar , his interpretation of Muhammad Iqbal's writings is similarly distinguished.
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