Douglas Morton Dunlop was a renowned British orientalist

Oriental studies

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 and scholar of Islamic and Eurasia

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n history.

Early life and education

Born in England, Dunlop studied at Bonn and Oxford under the historian Paul Eric Kahle (1875–1965). His work was also influenced by such scholars as Zeki Validi Togan, Mikhail Artamonov

Mikhail Artamonov

Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov Artamonov's scientific career was centered on the Leningrad University, where he was a professor since 1935 and the head of the chair of archeology since 1949. He researched Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements by the Don River, in the North Caucasus and in the Ukraine...

, and George Vernadsky

George Vernadsky

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.

Career

In the 1950s and '60s, Dunlop was Professor of History at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 in New York. He is best known for his influential histories of Arab

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 civilization and the Khazar Khagan

Khagan

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ate. Dunlop was the "most esteemed scholar of the Khazar monarchy." He had command of the many languages needed to study the Khazars, information about whom is found in Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Chinese literature.

As author

• "The Arabic Tradition of the Summa Alexandrinorum", in Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 1982
• Arab
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   civilization
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   to A.D. 1500 London: Longman, 1971.
• Arab civilization to A.D. 1500, New York: Praeger, 1971.
• The History of the Jewish Khazars, New York: Schocken Books, 1967.
• "The Khazars." The Dark Ages: Jews in Christian Europe, 711–1096. 1966.
• "The Translations of al-Bitrîq and Yahyâ (Yuhannâ) b. al-Bitrîq", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1959
• Dunlop, Douglas M.. (1957) "Sources of Gold and Silver in Islam
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   according to al-Hamdani
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   (C10th)", in Studia islamica
• "Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries of Ibn Bâjjah
  Ibn Bajjah
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  ", in The Islamic Quarterly, 1955
• "Aspects of the Khazar Problem", in Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society, 1951.
• "Ibn Bajjah's 'Tadbîru l-Mutawahhid'", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1945.
• "The Karaits of East Asia", in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1944.
• "Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
  Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  'There is some confusion in the literature on whether al-Khwārizmī's full name is ' or '. Ibn Khaldun notes in his encyclopedic work: "The first who wrote upon this branch was Abu ʿAbdallah al-Khowarizmi, after whom came Abu Kamil Shojaʿ ibn Aslam." . 'There is some confusion in the literature on...
  
  ", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1943.
• "The Dhunnunids of Toledo
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  ", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 1942.

As translator

• Abu Mashar al-Balkhi, Jafar Ibn Muhammad. (1971) The Mudhâkarât fî'Ilm an-Nujûm (Dialogues on Astrology) Attributed to Abû Ma'shar al Balkhî (Albumasar) (Book Chapter in Iran and Islam: in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky )
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1961) Fusul al-Madani: Aphorisms of the Statesman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1959) "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle [Part 2]". The Islamic quarterly pp. 21–54
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1957) "Al-Farabi's Paraphrase of the Categories of Aristotle [Part 1]" The Islamic quarterly pp. 168–197
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1956) "Al-Farabi's Introductory Risalah on Logic" The Islamic quarterly pp. 234–235
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1956) "Al-Farabi's Eisagoge" The Islamic quarterly pp. 117–138
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1955) "Al-Farabi's Introductory Sections on Logic" The Islamic quarterly pp. 264–282
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1952) "Al-Farabi's Aphorisms of the Statesman" (Journal Article in Iraq (London) ) pp.93–117
• al-Farabi, Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh. (1951) "The Existence and Definition of Philosophy / From an Arabic text ascribed to al-Farabi" (Journal Article in Iraq (London) pp. 76–93)