Paul Lunde

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Paul Lunde
Born1943
California
DiedCambridge, UK
OccupationArabist, writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, SOAS, Université Libanaise (Beirut)
RelativesDavid Lunde (brother), Patricia A. McKillip (sister-in-law), Caroline Stone (wife), Sir Richard Stone (father-in-law), Alexander and James Stone Lunde (sons)

Paul Lunde (born 1943) was an American Arabist and writer. He wrote or translated many books on Islam and the Arab world, and also wrote a book on codes and another on organised crime. He was a frequent contributor to Aramco World , the in-house magazine of Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.

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Life

Lunde was born in California in 1943, and grew up in Saudi Arabia. He went to the University of California at Berkeley to study Arabic, and continued his studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. [1]

Publications

Lunde wrote more than sixty articles for Aramco World , including an entire issue on "The Middle East and the Age of Discovery" in 1992, and a special issue on "The Indian Ocean and Global Trade" in 2005. [15] [16]

References

  1. Paul Lunde, Caroline Stone (translators/editors) (2012). Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North (prefatory material). London: Penguin Classics. ISBN   9780141975047.
  2. "9781138699021: A Dictionary of Arabic and Islamic Proverbs (Routledge Library Editions: Language & Literature of the Middle East) - AbeBooks - Lunde, Paul; Wintle, Justin: 1138699020". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  3. Masʻūdī, -956. (26 November 2015). The meadows of gold : the Abbasids. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-138-98061-7. OCLC   1135072321.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "Islam: Faith, Culture, History : Paul Lunde : 9780751373417". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  5. Lunde, Paul (2004). Organized Crime: An Inside Guide to the World's Most Successful Industry. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN   978-1-4053-0000-1.
  6. Lunde, Paul (2004). Lunde, Paul; Porter, Alexandra (eds.). Trade and Travel in the Red Sea Region: Proceedings of Red Sea Project I Held in the British Museum October 2002. BAR Publishing. doi:10.30861/9781841716220. ISBN   978-1-4073-2689-4.
  7. "9781841716220: Trade and Travel in the Red Sea Region (BAR International Series) (Pt.2) - AbeBooks - Lunde, Paul; Porter, Alexandra: 1841716227". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  8. Facey, William; McKinnon, Michael; Pledge, Thomas A.; Lunde, Paul (2006). A Land Transformed: The Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Aramco. Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). ISBN   978-0-9601164-0-9.
  9. "From the Meadows of Gold". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  10. Lunde, Paul (2009). The Book of Codes: Understanding the World of Hidden Messages : an Illustrated Guide to Signs, Symbols, Ciphers, and Secret Languages. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-26013-9.
  11. Ibn al-Mujāwir, Yūsuf ibn Yaʻqūb; Smith, G. Rex; Hakluyt Society (2008). A traveller in thirteenth-century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujāwir's Tārīkh al-mustabṣir. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN   978-0-904180-91-6. OCLC   123912616.
  12. Blue, Lucy Katherine; Society for Arabian Studies, eds. (2009). Connected hinterlands: proceedings of the Red Sea Project IV held at the University of Southampton, September 2008. Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN   978-1-4073-0631-5. OCLC   649828658.
  13. Faḍlān, Aḥmad Ibn; Fadlan, Ibn (2012). Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North. Penguin. ISBN   978-0-14-045507-6.
  14. The Man Who Wrote Aladdin: The Life and Times of Hannā Diyāb (Travellers in the Wider Levant) (Book). Hardinge Simpole. 11 January 2020. ISBN   9781843822288 . Retrieved 2020-07-29.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  15. The Middle East and the Age of Discovery. Aramco World. 43 (3) May/June 1992.
  16. The Indian Ocean & Global Trade. Aramco World. 56 (4) July/August 2005.