E. H. Palmer

Oriental Mysticism (Dodo Press) E. H. Palmer

Edward Henry Palmer (1840-1882) was an English orientalist. In 1867 he published a treatise on Oriental mysticism, based on the Maksad-i-Aksa of Aziz ibn Mohammad Nafasi. He was engaged in 1869 to join the survey of Sinai, undertaken by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and followed up this work in the next year by exploring the desert of El-Tih in company with Charles Drake. They completed this journey on foot and without escort, making friends among the Bedouin, to whom Palmer was known as Abdallah Effendi. The results of this expedition appeared in the Desert of the Exodus (1871); in a report published in the journal of the Palestine Exploration Fund; and in an article on the Secret Sects of Syria in the Quarterly Review (1873). In the close of the year 1871 he became Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. His works include: Poems of Beha ed Din (Ar. and Eng., 1876-1877), Arabic Grammar (1874), Persian Dictionary (1876) and English and Persian Dictionary (1883).