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Fernando de la Granja

فرناندو دي لا غرانخا

Notable figure 1928–1999 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 614; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 548 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Granja, Fernando de la (1928-1999)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic, Madrid; Andalusian maqamas and prose

Biography

A graduate of the University of Madrid (1952), he specialised in Arabic at the Egyptian University, then joined the Institute of Arabic Studies and became Professor of Arabic at Madrid. In the journal al-Andalus he wrote on Arabic poetry in al-Andalus (1953–1959), on the Maqama of the plague (1958) and on Ibn Burd and Ibn al-Khatib, edited the maqama of Ibn al-Murabiʿ al-Azdi (1962), and traced the Arabic sources of old Spanish tales (1968). He took part in preparing an Arabic–Spanish dictionary.