author
Stanley Lane-Poole
1854–1931
An energetic Victorian scholar of the Islamic world, he wrote vivid histories of medieval rulers, Muslim Spain, Egypt, and the wider Middle East for general readers as well as specialists.
4 Audiobooks
The Moors in Spain
by Stanley Lane-Poole
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
by Stanley Lane-Poole, J. D. Jerrold (James Douglas Jerrold) Kelley
The art of the Saracens in Egypt
by Stanley Lane-Poole
The story of Cairo
by Stanley Lane-Poole
About the author
Born in London in 1854, Stanley Lane-Poole was a British orientalist, archaeologist, and numismatist. He came from a family deeply involved in Middle Eastern studies, and his own career grew out of that world of languages, history, and collecting. He worked on Islamic coins at the British Museum and later wrote a long list of books on Islamic history, Egypt, and art.
His best-known works include studies of Saladin, the Moors in Spain, medieval Egypt, and Islamic dynasties. What makes his writing still notable is the way he tried to bring complicated periods and figures to life for ordinary readers, not just academics. Even when modern scholarship has moved on in places, his books remain part of the long history of English-language writing on the Islamic past.
Lane-Poole died in London in 1931. For listeners interested in classic historical writing, he offers a window into how the medieval Islamic world was introduced to a wide English-speaking audience in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.