Hunwick, John O.
هنويك, جون
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- Hunwick, J. O. (John O.), 1936-2015
- Hunwick, John, 1936-2015
- Hunwick, John Owen, 1936-2015
- Hūnwīk, Jawn, 1936-2015
- هنويك, جون
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
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Birth Date
- 1936
Death Date
- 2015-04-01
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1981
- Affiliation End: 2004
- Organization:Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of History
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1981
- Affiliation End: 2004
- Organization:Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Religion
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
- Organization:Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa
Has Affiliation
- Organization:Universitetet i Bergen
Has Affiliation
- Organization: American University in Cairo. Center for Arabic Study Abroad
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
- Organization:University College (Ibadan, Nigeria)
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Great Britain. Army. Somaliland Scouts
Birth Place
- Chard (England)
Associated Language
- English
Associated Language
- Arabic
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Islam--Africa, West
(lcsh) Africa--Study and teaching
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Hunwick, John O
John Hunwick
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Sources
- found:Maghili, M. b. A. al-K. Sharīʻa in Songhay, 1985:title page (John O. Hunwick)
- found:LC data base, October 10, 1985(hdg.: Hunwick, J. O.)
- found:West Africa and the Arab world, 1991:title page (John Owen Hunwick)
- found:Jews of a Saharan oasis, 2005:ECIP title page (John Hunwick) data view (professor emeritus, Northwestern University)
- found:BGMI, October 31, 2008(Hunwick, John O. (1936-); Hunwick, John Owen)
- found:Northwestern University, Department of History website, viewed May 12, 2014(John Hunwick; PhD Univ. of London, 1974; holds joint appointment in Department of Religion; teaches and researches the social and intellectual history of Islamic Africa)
- found:African studies review, 50:3, Dec. 2007, (review of Hunwick's Jews of a Saharan oasis, 2006), viewed online May 12, 2014:page 168 (in the 1960s Hunwick pioneered the use of Arabic sources for writing African history)
- found:English Wikipedia, viewed May 12, 2014(John Hunwick; born 1936 in Chard, Somerset, England; professor, author, Africanist; studied Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 1956-1959; taught Arabic at University of Ibadan, Nigeria (then University College, a branch of the University of London), 1960-1967; established the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and Centre of Arabic Documentation for microfilming of Arabic manuscripts; taught Arabic at SOAS for 2 years, then taught in Ghana while working on his PhD thesis, approved at SOAS in 1974, basis of his book Shari'a in Songhay; retired from Northwestern in 2004 after 23 years of service, prof. emeritus there)
- found:Program of African Studies email, April 3, 2015(Professor Emeritus John O. Hunwick, died in his home in Skokie, Illinois, on April 1, 2015)
- found:Timbuktu: a refuge of scholarly and righteous folk, 2003:title page (John Hunwick (Director-General of ISITA)) page 1 (جون هنويك)
- found:Northwestern University website, Program of African Studies website, People, Emeriti, viewed March 31, 2021(John Hunwick, History and Religion, researched the history of Muslim societies in West Africa; expert on Arabic sources, focused on development of West African Islamic scholarship and the translation of primary texts and documents)
- found:Northwestern University, Northwestern now website, viewed September 12, 2022;news release dated April 7, 2015 (John Hunwick, esteemed scholar of Islam and Africa, dies at 78; world-renowned professor worked to save Africa's Islamic history; Northwestern University Professor Emeritus John Owen Hunwick; died April 1, 2015, at his home in Skokie) -https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/04/john-owen-hunwick-june-1-1936--april-1-2015/
- found:Islamic Africa, v. 7 (2016), viewed online via JSTOR on September 12, 2022:pages 1-3 (John Owen Hunwick, 1936-2015; joined the University of Ibadan in 1960 as Arabic instructor, by 1964 was chairing its Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies; then taught Arabic at SOAS for two years; taught at University of Ghana 8 years beginning in 1969, submitting his Ph.D to London in 1974; at CASA, American University of Cairo, 1977-1981, before being recruited to Northwestern; with the exception of a year at University of Bergen (1993-1994), he dedicated his career there to the Departments of Religion and History) -https://www.jstor.org/stable/90017584
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- 1985-10-15:new
- 2022-09-13:revised
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