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Anthony Ashley Bevan

أنطوني بيفان

Notable figure 1859–1933 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, p. 85 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Anthony Ashley Bevan (1859-1933)

Field: Poetry and text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Naqaʾid of Jarir and al-Farazdaq

Biography

Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge (1893–1933), he edited the Naqaʾid of Jarir and al-Farazdaq in the recension of Abu ʿUbayda, in three volumes (Leiden 1905–1912). He also helped Lyall with the Mufaddaliyat, producing its third volume of indexes (1924).