Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, (1868-1945) English orientalist who exercised a lasting influence on Islāmic studies.
Educated at Aberdeen University and the University of Cambridge, Nicholson was lecturer in Persian (1902–26) and Sir Thomas Adams professor of Arabic (1926–33) at Cambridge. He was a leading scholar in Islāmic literature and mysticism.
The Mystics of Islam, first published in 1914, has long been recognized as a classic and definitive introduction to the message ...