Arthur Stanley Tritton
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Arthur Stanley Tritton, D. Litt.
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 (February 25, 1881 – November 8, 1973) was a British
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 historian and scholar of Islam
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. He was appointed Professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies
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, University of London in 1938, and also spent some time teaching at Aligarh University. He published his work as A.S.Tritton.
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