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In Oxford the author was able to become part of the development of the study of the modern Middle East and Islam at the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College. The chapter analyses this development and points to the importance of particular topics studied, notably the role of Islam in history and in the contemporary world.
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When I read Arabic and Persian at Oxford in the 1950s the Arabic syllabus ended in 1407. There were lectures on modern Middle Eastern history but no examination.
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Syria and Lebanon (London, 1946), Minorities in the Arab World (London, 1947).
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International Affairs, xxix, p. 333.
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He died before the MEC was established but his wife Violet left all his papers to the MEC Archives. She remained in Kuwait living in a house by the sea which is preserved as the Dickson House.
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Many of them left their private papers to the MEC Private Papers Archive.
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E. Said , Orientalism (London, 1995), p. 327.
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The Middle East Centre, 1957–2007, p. 8.
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Hopwood, D. (2018). How the Middle East Began to Be Studied. In: Islam's Renewal. St Antony's Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75202-0_2
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