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Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb

هاملتون جيب

Notable figure 1895–1971 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 551; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 461 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Gibb, Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen (1895-1971)

From the United Kingdom; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic, Oxford; Arabic Literature (1926)

Biography

Born in Alexandria, he studied Arabic in Edinburgh and then at the School of Oriental Studies in London. He was Professor of Arabic at the University of London (1930–1937), at Oxford (1937–1955) and then at Harvard. He wrote Arabic Literature: An Introduction (London, 1926) and a series of studies of contemporary Arabic literature (1926–1935), and translated Ibn Battuta into English. He was a member of the Arab Academy of Damascus and the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo.