Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) was a BritishOrientalist noted especially for his work in the field of thehistorical geography of the pre-modernMiddle Eastern and Eastern Islamic lands, and his editing of Persian geographical texts.^[1] He was a scholar of thePersian,Arabic, andSpanish languages.

Le Strange was one of the original trustees of theE. J. W. Gibb Memorial, an organisation which since 1905 has published theGibb Memorial Series.

He was born inBrussels,Belgium,^[2] the youngest child ofHenry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange ofHunstanton Hall,Norfolk, educated atClifton College^[3] and died inCambridge.^[4]

• Schumacher, Gottlieb;Oliphant, Laurence;Le Strange, Guy (1889).Across the Jordan; being an exploration and survey of part of Hauran and Jaulan. London: Watt.
• Le Strange, Guy (1890).Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. London: Committee of thePalestine Exploration Fund.OCLC 1004386.
• Le Strange, Guy (1900).Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Le Strange, Guy (1922).Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: from contemporary Arabic and Persian sources (2 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Le Strange, Guy (1903).Mesopotamia and Persia under the Mongols, in the fourteenth century A.D. From the Nuzhat-al-Ḳulūb of Ḥamd-Allah Mustawfī. London: Royal Asiatic Society.OCLC 5235794.
• Le Strange, Guy (1905).The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc.OCLC 1044046. +Index

• Ibn al-Furat;Le Strange (1900)."The Death of the Last Abbasid Caliph, from the Vatican MS. of Ibn al-Furat".Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.32:293–300.

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