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Félix María Pareja Casañas

فيليكس ماريّا باريخا

Notable figure 1890–1983 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 602; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 825 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Pareja Casañas, Felix M. (1890-1983)

From Spain; worked in India and Italy

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Arabic literature professor, Madrid; chess treatise (1935)

Biography

Born in Barcelona, he studied at its university, at Cambridge and at Madrid. He taught Arabic at St Xavier's College, Bombay (1935), Islamic studies at the Gregorian University in Rome (1938), and Arabic literature at the University of Madrid (1958), and supervised the making of an Arabic–Spanish dictionary. He edited an anonymous Arabic treatise on chess and its problems from a unique British Museum manuscript, with a Spanish translation (Madrid, 1935).