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Carlos Quirós Rodríguez

كارلوس كيروس

Notable figure 1884–1960 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 601; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 845 · Second source: Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos (Universidad de Granada): Trabajos publicados e inéditos del arabista Carlos Quirós (1884-1960)

From Spain; worked in Morocco

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translator of Averroes; wrote verse in Arabic

Biography

Born in Pola de Siero, Asturias, he took his degree in Semitic languages at Madrid. He published Averroes's Compendium of the Metaphysics with text and Spanish translation (Madrid, 1919), worked in Tetuán as a translator and researcher, wrote on the poets of al-Andalus (Madrid, 1953), and wrote poems in Arabic that appeared in newspapers in Tetuán and Spain.