M. A. R. Barker

Muhammad Abd- al- Rahman Barker ( born November 3, 1930 as Philip Barker in Idaho, † March 16, 2012; pseudonym: MAR Barker ) was Professor Emeritus of Urdu and South Asian Studies and the author of several books.

  • 2.1 Klamath
  • 2.2 Urdu
  • 2.3 Other
  • 3.1 RPG Tékumel
  • 3.2 novels

Life

Muhammad Abd- al- Rahman Barker was born under the name of Philip Barker in Idaho, the son of a headmaster with British ancestors. He enrolled at Washington State University and received 21 years with a scholarship from the Fulbright Program to study Indian languages. After graduating, he went for further studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and there wrote his thesis on the language of the Klamath. Barker taught first from 1958-60 at the Islamic Institute of the McGill University in Montreal, then went as part of his research on teaching materials for the Urdu language for two years at the University of the Punjab Lahore and in 1972 Head of the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota. After his retirement, he remained living with his wife in Minneapolis. The change of its name from Philip to Muhammad Abd- al- Rahman Barker took place as part of his conversion to Islam on his first trip to India in 1951.

Scientific Work

In the years 1963 and 1964 Barker published a dictionary and a grammar for the language of the Klamath, there also developed a discussion system for Klamath, which is considered by representatives of this nation as accurate and phonetically accurate reproduction of all possible sounds that language. In 1967 he presented his project group at the Islamic Institute, the three-part standard work A Course in Urdu before, the as language materials to Urdu to 1969, three other publications followed (An Urdu newspaper reader, A Reader of Modern Urdu Poetry and An Urdu Newspaper Word Count).

Tékumel

In the 1970s, Barker developed the fictional world Tékumel to which he also published five fantasy novels under a pen -and- paper role-playing game. In addition to the design of a history of the world Tékumel and different peoples, he invented it, the constructed language Tsolyáni, which he described in 1978 published work, The Tsolyáni language.

Writings

Klamath

  • Klamath texts, 1963.
  • Klamath dictionary, 1963.
  • Klamath grammar, 1964.

Urdu

  • A Course in Urdu (3 volumes, as co -author ), 1967.
  • An Urdu newspaper reader ( as co -author ), 1968.
  • A Reader of Modern Urdu Poetry ( co -author ), 1968.
  • At Urdu Newspaper Word Count ( as co -author ), 1969.
  • Urdu - English vocabulary, 1980.

Other

  • A Course in Baluchi ( 2 volumes, as co -author ), 1969.

Works

RPG Tékumel

  • Empire of the Petal Throne, 1975.
  • War of wizards, 1975.
  • The Book of Ebon Bindings, 1978.
  • The Tsolyáni Language ( 2 volumes), 1978.

Novels

Tekumel: The Empire of the Petal Throne

  • The Man of Gold, 1984.
  • Flame Song, 1985.
  • Prince of Skulls, 2002.
  • Lords of Tsámra, 2003.
  • A Death of Kings, 2003.
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