Muir, Sir William
(male)
04/27/1819 - 07/11/1905
Scottish
University of Edinburgh
Indian administrator, principal of Edinburgh University; orientalist and scholar of Islam; wrote A Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira; Annals of the Early Caliphate; The Caliphate: Its rise, decline and fall, and other works. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)