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See also:GEORGE See also:SALE (c. 1697-1736) , See also:English orientalist, was the son of a See also:London See also:merchant . In 1720 he was admitted a student of the Inner See also:Temple, but subsequently practised as a See also:solicitor . Having studied Arabic for some See also:time in See also:England, he became, m 1726, one of the correctors of the Arabic version of the New Testament, begun in 1720 by the Society for Promoting See also:Christian Knowledge, and subsequently took the See also:principal See also:part in the See also:work . He made an extremely paraphrastic, but, for his time, admirable English See also:translation of the See also:Koran (1734 and often reprinted), and had a See also:European reputation as an orientalist . He died on the 13th of See also:November 1736 . His collection of See also:oriental See also:manuscripts is now in the Bodleian library, See also:Oxford . |
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