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Arthur John Arberry

آرثر جون آربري

Notable figure 1905–1969 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 556; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 133 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Arberry, Arthur John (1905-1969)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Cambridge professor of Arabic; Modern Arabic Poetry (1950)

Biography

Born in Portsmouth, he studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He headed the Classics department of the Egyptian University (1932–1934), then ran the India Office Library in London (1934–1939), and later became professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He edited al-Kalabadhi's Taʿarruf (Cairo, 1934) and al-Niffari's Mawaqif and Mukhatabat from seven manuscripts with an English translation (1935), and translated Modern Arabic Poetry (1950) and The Koran Interpreted (1955).