The Oriental Collections by William Ouseley
As editor and contributor, William Ouseley (1767 1842) published this three-volume collection of essays between 1797 and 1800. Educated at Paris and Leiden, Ouseley became an honorary fellow of the royal societies of Amsterdam, Gottingen and Edinburgh. He researched extensively on Persia, producing important work on Persian handwriting. Several of his translations of works by fellow orientalist J. L. Burckhardt (1784 1817) are also reissued in this series. Ouseley's Oriental Collections consists of miscellaneous pieces contributed by a number of writers on aspects of Asian history, culture and literature. Volume 3 includes an exegesis on Hafez, essays on Chinese dialogue and the Korean alphabet, a catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, translated extracts from the historian al-Tabari, and several Persian odes and sonnets, as well as answers to readers' queries. The diverse subject matter will appeal to readers interested in the nature and progress of oriental scholarship in the late eighteenth century.
William Ouseley retired as Supervisor of the Organized Crime Squad, Kansas City FBI Fied Division, after a 25 year career. Having spend 21 years investigating organized crime he was involved in numerous prosecutions of mob figures becoming exceptionally knowledgeable concerning syndicated crime. He has testified in Federal Courts as an expert witness in various areas of organized crime activity, and provided testimony before a Senate special investigative rackets committee. He is the author of an historical accounting of the development of the Kansas City mob - Open City: True Story of the KC Crime Family 1900-195
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108056434 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108056431 |
| Title | The Oriental Collections |
| Author | William Ouseley |
| Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives From The Royal Asiatic Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2013-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
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