Malcolm Yapp

Malcolm Edward Yapp (29 May 1931 – 14 June 2025) was a British historian who was a professor of the modern history of Western Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He died on 14 June 2025, at the age of 94.

Works 'Two British historians of Persia', in Bernard Lewis & Peter Malcolm Holt, eds., Historians of the Middle East, 1962. (ed. with V. J. Parry) War, technology and society in the Middle East, 1975. (ed. with David Taylor) Political identity in South Asia, 1979. Chingis Khan and the Mongol Empire, 1980. Strategies of British India: Britain, Iran, and Afghanistan, 1798–1850, 1980. The making of the modern Near East, 1792–1923, 1987. 'Europe in the Turkish mirror', Past and Present, 137 (1992), pp. 134–55. The Near East since the First World War: a History to 1995, 1991. (ed.) Politics and diplomacy in Egypt: the diaries of Sir Miles Lampson 1935–1937, 1997. 'The Legend of the Great Game'. Proceedings of the British Academy, no. 111, 2001, pp. 179–198.