Wheeler Thackston

Wheeler Thackston is an Orientalist and distinguished editor and translator of numerous Persian, Chaghatay, and Persian literary and historical sources. A graduate of Princeton's Oriental Studies department and Harvard's Near Eastern Studies department (Ph.D., 1974), where he is now Professor of the Practice of Persian and other Near Eastern Languages. Thackston's best known works are his Persian and Arabic grammars and his translations of the Baburnama, the memoirs of the Mughal prince and emperor Babur. He has also produced important works of linguistic scholarship on Lebanese Arabic and Kurdish. He is thought to be an excellent cook and tap dancer, although these talents are less well attested.

 

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