The present short study publishes five hitherto unknown letters written by the Ottoman historian Paul Wittek (1894–1978) to the American Middle Eastern historian Sydney Nettleton Fisher (1906–87). Fisher was a graduate student of Wittek for a few months in 1938; the letters were written during two short periods (1938–9 and 1946–9), when Wittek was attached firstly to the Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves at the Université Libre, Brussels, and secondly, from 1948 onwards, to the University of London. In the intervening years (1940–6), Wittek was a political refugee twice over in England. The letters manifest the development of a close friendship between Wittek and Fisher who, as two supplementary letters written to him by the British Arabist and Islamic scholar H. A. R. Gibb show, was also active during the war years in attempting—unsuccesfully—to facilitate Wittek's acceptance in the U.S.A. as a political refugee.

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动荡时期的奥斯曼帝国历史学家。1938 年至 1949 年，保罗·维特克致悉尼 N. 费舍尔的五封信：友谊的见证

这份简短的研究发表了五封由奥斯曼历史学家保罗威特克（Paul Wittek，1894-1978 年）写给美国中东历史学家悉尼内特尔顿费舍尔（Sydney Nettleton Fisher，1906-87 年）的信。1938 年，费舍尔在 Wittek 做了几个月的研究生。这些信件是在两个短时期（1938-9 和 1946-9）期间写成的，当时 Wittek 首先隶属于布鲁塞尔自由大学的东方与奴隶历史哲学研究所，其次是从 1948 年开始，伦敦大学。在此期间（1940-6 年），威特克曾两次在英格兰成为政治难民。这些信件表明了威特克和费舍尔之间密切友谊的发展，正如英国阿拉伯学家和伊斯兰学者哈尔·吉布写给他的两封补充信所示，