George Percy Badger

George Percy Badger (6 April 1815 – 21 February 1888) was an English Anglican missionary, and a scholar of oriental studies.

[1] He returned to England in 1841, and after some theological studies at the Church Missionary College, Islington, he was ordained Anglican priest in 1842.

Badger helped a Catholic priest from Diyarbakır, Louis Sabunji, to continue his journal, Al Nahla, in London in 1877.

[3] Between the years 1839 and 1883 a large number of books were written by George Percy Badger, most of them dealing with Arabic history and literature, and with his travels.

[3] George Percy Badger translated also a text about Ibadism[5] in 1871: History of the Imāms and Seyyids of Omān from A.D. 661-1856 by Salīl-Ibn- Razīk.