the trustees of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial, an organisation which since 1905 has published the Gibb Memorial Series. Research Gibb worked in three areas, Arabic literature and language, Islamic history and institutions, and Islam. After The Arab Conquests in Central Asia, his first major work was Arabic Literature – An Introduction (1926). His most important work on Islam was Modern Trends in Islam (1947) and Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey (1949), later republished as Islam: An Historical Survey. One of his major late works was Studies on the Civilization of Islam (1962), Personal life Also in 1922 Gibb married Helen Jessie Stark. They had one son, Ian (1923–2005), and one daughter, Dorothy (1926–2006, now Dorothy Greenslade). Gibb died on 22 October 1971. Associations Fellow of British Academy, Danish Academy, American Philosophical Society Honorary fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Medieval Academy of America Member of Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo, Institut d'Egypte (Associate Member), Arab Academy of Damascus (Honorary), Iraqi Academy of Sciences Bibliography Ottoman Poems Translated into English Verse in the Original Forms (1882), Trübner & Company. A History of Ottoman Poetry (vol. 1 1900 - vol. 6 1909), Luzac and Company. The Arab Conquests in Central Asia (1923), The Royal Asiatic Society. Arabic Literature – An Introduction (1926), also (1963), Clarendon Press and (1974), Oxford University Press. Ibn Batuta, 1304–1377 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62870 Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-I354], trans. and selected by Gibb, Hamilton Alexander Roskeen (London: Routledge, 1929), (). Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325–1354 (1929), translated and selected with an introduction and notes, R. M. McBride. Note by Professor H. A. R. Gibb (1939), from Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Part I. C I (b) Annex I, p. 400-02. Modern Trends in Islam (1947). Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey (1949) retitled Islam: An Historical Survey (1980), Oxford. Online Chapter The Koran Online Chapter The Sharia Islamic Society and the West with Harold Bowen (vol. 1 1950, vol. 2 1957). Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam (1953), edited with J. H. Kramers, Brill. The Encyclopaedia of Islam (1954– ), new ed. Edited by a number of leading orientalists, including Gibb, under the patronage of the International Union of Academies. Leiden: Brill, along with that edited by J. H. Kramers, and E. Levi-Provençal. "Islamic Biographical Literature," (1962) in Historians of the Middle East, eds. Bernard Lewis and P. M. Holt, Oxford U. Press. Studies on