السيرة الاجتماعية والعلمية للمستشرق دي لاسي أوليري

Abstract

De Lacy O'Leary is considered one of the orientalists who left a great scientific impact in the field of his scientific specialization, thanks to his continuous scientific studies that he began from an early age. Because of his unwillingness to do so, O'Leary lived a priestly social life until the end of his life, despite his academic studies and multiple certificates, but he continued to practice his religious work and moved between the various churches of Britain.O'Leary was distinguished by his diverse scientific culture, which enabled him to present a group of books that gave us the height of his heels in the field of writing and authorship. He closely related to the culture of those peoples loyal to him in religion, and his writings were also not devoid of interest in the historical aspect, to which he devoted part of his writings, so it came between a study of the history of the ancient Arab peoples, and another that focused on studying them after the emergence of Islam, so he presented studies on the scientific aspects of translation, authorship and philosophy. In which interest spread during the Umayyad and Abbasid eras, as well as providing a brief study on the Fatimid state, which originated in Morocco at the beginning, and moved to Egypt to establish an Islamic caliphate that extended for a period of time.O'Leary joined the University of London, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Arts in 1891 AD, then passed the Cambridge Preliminary Theological Research in 1896 AD, and obtained a Master's degree in Arts in 1905, and a PhD in Theology from Trinity College in Dublin in 1911 AD. O'Leary was distinguished by his scientific knowledge. He was appointed priest in Wells Cathedral in 1896 AD, then took over the work of St. Peter Cliftonwood (1899-1900 AD), then St. Werberg for the period (1900-1901 AD) and then St. Paul Portland