Name : Glasse Cyril
Period : 1944 - 
Biographical detail :  The author of the Concise encyclopaedia of Islam.

Cyril travelled all over the Islamic world and published A Guide to Saudi Arabia in 1981 and the Pilgrims Guide to Makkah. He also translated Margerit vons Brechen’s Study of Islamic Jerusalem.

Glasse Cyril was born in America, and he graduated from the Columbia University.

  (Compiler : M. Nauman Khan / Ghulam Mohiuddin)

From: http://www.salaam.co.uk/knowledge/biography/viewentry.php?id=656