Charles Cutler Torrey

"Charles Torrey" redirects here. For the abolitionist, see Charles Turner Torrey.

Charles Cutler Torrey (20 December 1863 – 12 November 1956) was an American historian, archaeologist and scholar. While he was a Christian and the son of a reverend, he was a close friend of the progressive rabbi George Alexander Kohut. He studied with Theodor Nöldeke, one of the most important orientalists and scholars of Islam of all time.

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