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GEORGE SALE (c. 1697-1736)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 61 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE
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SALE (c. 1697-1736)  ,
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English orientalist, was the son of a
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London
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merchant . In 1720 he was admitted a student of the Inner
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Temple, but subsequently practised as a
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solicitor . Having studied Arabic for some
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time in
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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
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Christian Knowledge, and subsequently took the
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principal
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part in the
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work . He made an extremely paraphrastic, but, for his time, admirable English
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translation of the
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Koran (1734 and often reprinted), and had a
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European reputation as an orientalist . He died on the 13th of
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November 1736 . His collection of
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oriental
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manuscripts is now in the Bodleian library,
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Oxford .

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