British historian
John Andrew Boyle (10 March 1916 – 19 November 1978), was a British historian, an accomplished linguist, and Oriental scholar.
John was born atWorcester Park ,Surrey ,England , on 10 March 1916. His father,Andrew Boyle , was the first editor ofEveryman's Encyclopaedia Roget's Thesaurus Spinoza 'sEthics [ 1] The Pickwick Papers [ 2]
In 1933, John won a scholarship toBirmingham University where he graduated with first-class honours in German in 1936.[ 3] [ 4]
In 1941 he became asapper [ 2] Foreign Office where he remained until 1950.
"In 1945 he married a colleague, Margaret Elizabeth Dunbar, who gave him three daughters, a life of great domestic happiness, and constant support in his work".[ 2]
He completed his doctoral dissertation under the guidance ofVladimir Minorsky . Boyle received his doctorate in 1947.[ 5]
He later became a professor of Persian atManchester University .[ 6]
He produced a Persian dictionary and a grammar book of modernPersian .
He was the only European ever to receive theIranian order of Sepas .
He died of heart failure on November 19, 1978, at the age of 62.[ 7]
Boyle was the author, translator, or editor of the following works:[ 8]
Boyle, John Andrew (1949).A Practical Dictionary of the Persian Language . London: Luzac and Company.ISBN 9780875570570 {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) Persian words areromanized in this dictionary.'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (1958).Boyle, John Andrew (ed.).Tarikh-i Jahangushay The History of the World-Conqueror ]. Translated by John Andrew Boyle.Harvard University Press .ISBN 0674404009 {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) Juvaini stopped working on the original Persian-language text in 1260, leaving it in a disorganized and incomplete state. Mirza Muhammad Qazvini completed the best text and published it in 1937. The 1958 edition (Boyle's English translation) is in two volumes. A book review of the 1958 edition was published byThe American Historical Review [ 9] Boyle, John Andrew (1966).Grammar of Modern Persian Wiesbaden ,Germany :Harrassowitz Verlag .ISBN 9783447006927 [ 10] Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlallāh (1971).The Successors of Genghis Khan (PDF) . Translated by John Andrew Boyle.New York City :Columbia University Press .ISBN 0231033516 Ehsan Yarshater ; Preface by John Andrew Boyle. This is a translation of Volume 2 of Rashīd'sJami' al-Tawarikh ("Compendium of Chronicles").Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār (1976).The 'Ilāhī-nāma Book of God ].UNESCO collection of representative works: Persian heritage series; [no. 29]. Translated byJohn Andrew Boyle .Manchester ,England :Manchester University Press .ISBN 0719006635 Annemarie Schimmel . The 'Ilāhī-nāma is a 12th century Persian poem.An incompletely edited version is publicly accessible, here: Boyle, John Andrew (1977).The Mongol world empire, 1206-1370 (snippet view) Variorum Collected Studies .ISBN 9780860780021 OCLC 03891719 .Owen Lattimore .Boyle, John Andrew (1952). "Ibn Al-Tiqtaqa and the Ta'rikh-I-Jahan-Gushay of Juvayni".Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 15 .Cambridge University Press :175– 77.doi :10.1017/S0041977X00084263 .Boyle, John Andrew (December 1954)."Iru and Maru in The Secret History of The Mongols" Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 17 (3/4).Harvard–Yenching Institute :403– 410.doi :10.2307/2718320 .JSTOR 2718320 .Barthold, Wilhelm ;Boyle, John Andrew (eds.)."D̲j̲uwaynī" .Encyclopaedia of Islam Second Edition Online (EI-2 English) Leiden ,Netherlands :Brill Publishers .Ata-Malik Juvayni " is the spelling of D̲j̲uwaynī's name used in the title of his English Wikipedia article.Boyle, John Andrew (June 1956)."On the Titles Given in Juvaini to Certain Mongolian Princes" (PDF) .Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 19 (1/2).Harvard–Yenching Institute :146– 154.doi :10.2307/2718493 .JSTOR 2718493 .Boyle, John Andrew (May 1959)."The Mongols and Europe" .History Today 9 (5). London:336– 43.Boyle, John Andrew (Autumn 1961)."The Death of the Last 'Abbasid Caliph: A Contemporary Muslim Account" Journal of Semitic Studies 6 (2):145– 161.doi :10.1093/jss/6.2.145 .ISSN 0022-4480 .Boyle, John Andrew (Autumn 1963)."The Longer Introduction to the 'Zij-i-Ilkhani' of Nasir-ad-Din Tusi" Journal of Semitic Studies 8 (2):244– 254.doi :10.1093/jss/8.2.244 .ISSN 0022-4480 .Boyle, John Andrew (1975) [1968]. "Chapter 20(b):'Umar Khayyam : Astronomer, Mathematician and Poet". InFrye, Richard Nelson (ed.).The Cambridge History of Iran 658– 664.ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6 here: Boyle, John Andrew , ed. (1968)."Vol. 5: The Saljuq and Mongol periods" .The Cambridge History of Iran Cambridge ,United Kingdom :Cambridge University Press .ISBN 052106936X OCLC 457145670 .Boyle, John Andrew (1970)."Rashīd al-Dīn and the Franks" (PDF) .Central Asiatic Journal 14 (1/3).Wiesbaden ,Germany :Harrassowitz Verlag :62– 67.Boyle, John Andrew (1970)."The significance of the Jami' al-Tawarikh as a source on Mongol history" .Iran-Shinasi 2 (1).Bethesda, Maryland : Keyan Foundation:1– 8.ISSN 1051-5364 .OCLC 963373520 .Yuan Shih History of Yuan ). An 8-page print book was created from this same Iran-Shinasi journal article, having the same author and title, and published by the Keyan Foundation in 1970.Boyle, John Andrew (1971).Sinor, Denis (ed.). "Ghazan's letter to Boniface VIII: where was it written?".Proceeding(s) of the Twenty-seventh International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, Michigan .Wiesbaden ,Germany :Harrassowitz Verlag :601– 02.Boyle, John Andrew (1971). "Marco Polo and His Description of the World".History Today 21 (11):759– 69.Boyle, John Andrew (1971)."Rashīd al-Dīn: The First World Historian" Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 9 .Taylor & Francis :19– 26.doi :10.2307/4300435 .ISSN 0578-6967 .JSTOR 4300435 .Boyle, John Andrew (1974). "Some Thoughts on the Sources for the Il-Khanid Period of Persian History".Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 12 .Taylor & Francis :185– 88.ISSN 0578-6967 .Boyle, John Andrew (1974). "The Alexander Legend in Central Asia".Folklore 85 (4). London:The Folklore Society :217– 28.doi :10.1080/0015587X.1974.9716561 .Boyle, John Andrew (1976)."The Il-Khans of Persia and the Princes of Europe" .Central Asiatic Journal 20 (1/2).Wiesbaden ,Germany :Harrassowitz Verlag :25– 40.JSTOR 41927857 .Boyle, John Andrew (April 1979)."Alexander and the Mongols" The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 111 (2).Cambridge University Press :123– 136.doi :10.1017/S0035869X00135555 .JSTOR 25211053 .- - - - - - - -
- "Mongolia before Genghis Khan: the native tradition", Journal of the Anglo-Mongolian Society 2:1 (1975), 60-69.
- "The last barbarian invaders: the impact of the Mongol conquest upon East and West," Memoirs and Proceedings 112 (1969–70), 5-19.
- "The burial place of the Great Khan Ogedei," in 11th PIAC (1970), 45-50.
- "Sites and localities connected with the history of the Mongol empire," in Olon Ulsyn, v. 1 (1972), 75-79.
- "The seasonal residences of the Great Khan Ogedei, Central Asiatic Journal 16 (1972), 125-131. Also in 12th PIAC (1974), 145-151.
- "Kirakos of Ganjak on the Mongols", Central Asiatic Journal 8 (1963), 199-214
- "The summer and winter camping grounds of the Kereit", Central Asiatic Journal 17 (1973), 108-110.
^ de Spinoza, Benedictus (1910).Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione" George Santayana . See also thePreview of this book. On the 4th page (unnumbered) of said Preview, witness these words: "Spinoza's Ethics and 'De Intellectus Emendatione' Translated by A. Boyle with Introduction by Professor G. Santayana"^a b c Beckingham, C. F. (1979)."Obituary of Professor J. A. Boyle" .The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Cambridge University Press :184– 186.doi :10.1017/S0035869X00135786 .JSTOR 25211076 .^ Melville, Charles P. (2023)."BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN ANTHONY BOYLE entitled 'J. A. Boyle (1916–78) Trustee (1971–78)' .Edinburgh University Press .doi :10.1515/9781399516273-023 .A Short History of theGibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees . Webpage contains preview.^ "BOYLE, JOHN ANDREW – Encyclopaedia Iranica" . Iranicaonline.org. Retrieved19 October 2013 .^ Avery, Peter William ;Mansfield, Peter John ; Grimwood-Jones, Diana (1979)."Obituary of Professor John Andrew Boyle" British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Bulletin 6 (1).doi :10.1080/13530197908705263 .^ Elwell-Sutton, L. P. (1 January 1979). "Obituary: John Andrew Boyle".Folklore .90 (1):105– 106.doi :10.1080/0015587X.1979.9716129 .John Andrew Boyle was born in 1916 into a family of Scottish origin to whom cosmopolitan interests were almost second nature (his grandmother was Spanish, and his father, a well-known bibliophile and bookseller, was at one time ... ^ "Obituary of Dr. John A. Boyle" (PDF) .Hamdard Islamicus 2 (2).Pakistan : 116. 1979.^ "Boyle, John Andrew - People and organisations - Trove" . Trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved19 October 2013 .^ Young, T. Cuyler (1 January 1959)."Book review ofThe History of the World-Conqueror " .The American Historical Review 64 (2):350– 351. ^ Windfuhr, Gernot Ludwig (October 1967)."Book review of 'Grammar of Modern Persian' by John Andrew Boyle" Journal of the American Oriental Society 87 (4).American Oriental Society :627– 630.doi :10.2307/597622 .JSTOR 597622 .
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