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Malcolm Cameron Lyons

مالكولم كاميرون لايونز

Notable figure 1929–2019 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1076 (a second entry, «ليونز», printed inside the entry for C. L. Hunt; al-Aqiqi's row: al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed., vol. 2, p. 472) · Second source: Cambridge University Reporter, no. 6572 (2019–20), obituary notice: Professor Malcolm Cameron Lyons, died 18 November 2019, aged 90

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Cambridge professor of Arabic; The Arabian Epic (1995)

Biography

Born in India, he read Classics and then Arabic at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he taught Arabic and in time held the Sir Thomas Adams's Chair of Arabic. He compiled An Elementary Classical Arabic Reader (1962), studied the popular siras in The Arabian Epic (1995), and with his wife Ursula translated the complete Arabian Nights into English (2008). He also edited texts from the Arabic translations of Greek works.