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Jaroslav Stetkevych

جاروسلاف ستتكيفتش

Notable figure 1929–2021 · 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, pp. 8, 12, 15, 61 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Stetkevych, Jaroslav (1929-2021)

From Ukraine; worked in the United States

Field: Philology and literature

Affiliation

Philologist; author of The Modern Arabic Literary Language

Biography

Ukrainian-born, he taught Arabic literature at the University of Chicago. He wrote The Modern Arabic Literary Language: Lexical and Stylistic Developments (Chicago 1970) and The Zephyrs of Najd: The Poetics of Nostalgia in the Classical Arabic Nasib (Chicago 1993), translated into Arabic by Hasan al-Banna ʿIzz al-Din as «صبا نجد» (Riyadh: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, 2004).

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»