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Fernando Valderrama Martínez

فرناندو بالديراما مارتينيث

Notable figure 1912–2004 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 209 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Valderrama Martínez, Fernando (1912-2004)

From Spain; worked in Morocco

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor of the Kunnash al-Haʾik songbook (1954)

Biography

Born in Melilla, he graduated from the University of Granada (1945) and took his doctorate at Madrid with a thesis on the Kunnash al-Haʾik. He worked in education in northern Morocco and taught at the Centre of Moroccan Studies in Tetouan, then taught Arabic in Madrid. He published the Kunnash al-Haʾik, an anthology of Moroccan Andalusian songs of the twelfth century AH (Tetouan, 1954), wrote a two-volume course in Moroccan Arabic, and prepared an Arabic-Spanish and Spanish-Arabic dictionary.