Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot

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Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot (21 May 1833 – 25 May 1901) was a British Orientalist and translator.

Arbuthnot was well versed in the ancient literature of Persia (Iran) and India. He collaborated with Sir Richard Burton in Burton's translation of the Kama Sutra of Vatsayana (1833), and he wrote the books Arabic Authors, The Mysteries of Chronology, and The Ananga Ranga. He edited The Rauza-Us-Safa, or Garden of Purity by Muhammad Bin Khavendshah Bin Mahmud, Translation by E. Rehatsek.

It is due to his work that several of the masterpieces of Arabic, Persian and Indian literature first became available in English translation.

[edit] References

• Mrs P S-M Arbuthnot Memories of the Arbuthnots (1920). George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

[edit] External links

• Arbuthnot, F.F. Arabic Authors: A Manual of Arabian History and Literature (Full text)

• Arbuthnot Family tree