David A. King (historian)

Prof David A. King (born 1941 in the United Kingdom) is a British historian and author.

He was educated at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Middle East Centre for Arab Studies and Yale.

He was the Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures and History of Science at New York University and the director of the Smithsonian Institution project on medieval Islamic astronomy and Director of the Institute for the History of Science in Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

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