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Stanley Lane-Poole
1854–1931
A prolific Victorian-era scholar of the Islamic world, he wrote lively histories that helped introduce many English-language readers to medieval Muslim rulers, Cairo, and the wider Middle East. His books blend careful research with a strong gift for storytelling.
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 on December 18, 1854, Stanley Lane-Poole became part of a remarkable family of oriental scholars. He worked at the British Museum from 1874 to 1892, then spent time in Egypt studying archaeology, and later served as Professor of Arabic at Dublin University from 1897 to 1904.
He is best remembered as an orientalist, archaeologist, and historian whose books made Islamic history more accessible to general readers. Among his best-known works are studies of Egypt, the Moors in Spain, and Saladin, and he also wrote on Islamic coins and dynasties.
Lane-Poole died on December 29, 1931. His writing remains of interest for readers drawn to older narrative histories of the medieval Islamic world, especially those curious about how that history was presented to English-speaking audiences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.