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Mariano Gaspar Remiro

ماريانو غاسبار ريميرو

Notable figure 1868–1925 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 590; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 384 · Second source: Real Academia de la Historia, Diccionario Biográfico Español: Mariano Gaspar y Remiro

From Spain; worked in Cuba

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Arabic professor; translated Ibn al-Khatib, al-Nuwayri

Biography

Born in the province of Zaragoza, he learned the Semitic languages under Codera and Ribera, and taught Arabic and Hebrew at the universities of Havana, Salamanca, Granada and Madrid. He edited and translated into Spanish Musa ibn Hammu II's Wasitat al-suluk fi siyasat al-muluk (Zaragoza, 1899), selections from Ibn al-Khatib's Rayhanat al-kuttab (Granada, 1912–1916), and the sections of al-Nuwayri's Nihayat al-arab on Muslim Spain and North Africa (Granada, 1915–1919).