برترام توماس

لأشخاص آخرين اسمهم برت توماس, انظر برت توماس (توضيح).
برترام توماس[1]

برترام سيدني توماس Bertram Sidney Thomas ‏(13 يونيو 1892 – 27 ديسمبر 1950) كان دبلوماسياً مستكشفاً إنگليزياً كان أول غربي موثق يعبر الربع الخالي. كما كان عالماً مارس craniofacial anthropometry.[2]

Bertram Sidney Thomas (1892–1950), Explorer and Arabist, by Walter Westley Russell (1867–1949)

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السيرة

وُلِد برترام توماس في پيل بالقرب من بريستول[3] and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.

برترام سيدني توماس، بريشة والتر وستلي رسل.
توماس عبَرَ الربع الخالي مع رجال من قبيلتي آل الرشيد ومرة.

After working for the Civil Service in the General Post Office, he served in Belgium during World War I. He was commissioned in the Somerset Light Infantry in January 1916 and served in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) between 1916 and 1918.[4] He worked as an Assistant Political Officer in this country from 1918 to 1922, and Assistant British Representative in Transjordan (now Jordan), from 1922 to 1924. He was appointed as Finance Minister and Wazir to Taimur bin Feisal, the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (now Oman), a post he held from 1925 to 1932.[4] In this capacity, he undertook a number of expeditions into the desert, and became the first European to cross the Rub' al Khali[5] from 1930 and 1931, a journey he recounted in Arabia Felix (1932), in which he described this desert's animals, inhabitants, and culture.

Besides Arabia Felix, Thomas wrote several other books, including The Arabs: The Epic Life Story of a People Who Have Left Their Deep Impress on the World (London: T. Butterworth, 1930; Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1937).

During World War II, Thomas headed the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in Jerusalem, where British Army officers were taught Arabic language and culture.[6]

He returned to England and died in the house in which he was born, in 1950.

Two species of Omani reptiles are named in his honor, Platyceps thomasi and Uromastyx thomasi.[7]


الأوسمة

He was awarded the OBE in 1920 and CMG in 1949.[4] In 1932 he was also awarded the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. One of the Society's most prestigious awards, it is offered for outstanding service of a humanitarian nature with a clear geographical dimension.[8]

الفيلم عن برترام توماس

A recent film called Crossing the Empty Quarter was created by the Anglo-Oman Society's Chairman, Richard Muir — the ex-Ambassador to Oman — from footage taken by Thomas on his journey, and photographs from the Library of the Oriental Institute in Cambridge.[9]

ببليوگرافيا

  • Arabia Felix (1932)
  • The Arabs: The Epic Life Story of a People Who Have Left Their Deep Impress on the World (London: T. Butterworth, 1930; Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1937)

المراجع

  1. ^ JO WOOLF (2015-08-04). "Bertram Thomas: gentleman, diplomat and desert wanderer". الجمعية الجغرافية الاسكتلندية الملكية.
  2. ^ Explore Saudi Arabia. "Bertram Thomas 1892-1950." 26 September 2007
  3. ^ Ure, John (2004). "Thomas, Bertram Sidney". قاموس أكسفورد للسيَر الوطنية (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36469. Retrieved 2008-08-07. (Subscription or UK public library membership مطلوبة.)
  4. ^ أ ب ت "BT Bertram Sidney Thomas (1892-1950), Explorer". Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 4 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ^ "Archive collections in the oriental studies faculty library". Cambridge University libraries information bulletin. University of Cambridge. 2003. Archived from the original on 21 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  6. ^ "Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy: Of MECAS & Spies". Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  7. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Thomas, B.", p. 265).
  8. ^ "Livingstone Medal | RSGS". Archived from the original on 5 March 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  9. ^ "About the Expedition". Crossing the Empty Quarter. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
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