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Margoliouth was a scholar whose efforts in Islamic studies are described as "pioneering". He has a near-legendary reputation among Islam ic peoples and Oriental scholars of Europe . He also spent long time traveling in the Middle East . At Baghdad and in the surrounding area, he came to be regarded as more knowledgeable on Islamic matters than most Arab scholars. Many of his works on the history of Islam became the standard treatises in English, including ''Mohammed and the Rise of Islam'' (1905), ''The Early Development of Mohammedanism'' (1914), and ''The Relations Between Arabs and Israelites Prior to the Rise of Islam'' (1924). They did so for at least a generation. He is described as particularly brilliant editor and translator of Arabic works, as seen in The Letters of ''Abu'l-'Ala of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man'' (1898), ''Yaqut's Dictionary of Learned Men'', 6 vol. (1907–27), and the chronicle of Miskawayh , prepared in collaboration with H. F. Amedroz under the title ''The Eclipse of the 'Abbasid Caliphate'', 7 vol. (1920–21). WORKS
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