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Born in Ghent , Belgium of Catholic Flemish stock, Henri Lammens joined the Society Of Jesus in Beirut at the age of fifteen, and settled permanently in Lebanon . During his first eight years there Lammens mastered the Arabic Language , as well as Latin , and Greek . His first work of scholarship was a dictionary of Arabic usage (1889). He edited '' Al-Bashir '', the Jesuit newspaper of Beirut, and after much travelling, he began his career as an Orientalist at the School Of Oriental Studies at the Jesuit College in 1907. He published a series of studies on the '', as well as to various learned journals. His contributions are considered highly influential among Western historians of Islam; and yet he has often been criticized for his skewed portrayal of many issues. It is universally acknowledged "that Lammens provided the study of the sira with a new basis; and none would underestimate his contributions on the history of the Umayyads." Lammens concluded that the outcome of the meeting of Saqifah came about as the result of a Conspiracy woven by Abu Bakr , Umar and Uthman , who, in the Saqifah of the Banu Sa`idah, had agreed to seize the Caliph ate and succeed one another. ref WORKS
Some of Lammens's studies are included in '' Quest For The Historical Muhammad '', edited by Ibn Warraq . |
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