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Elías Terés Sádaba

إلياس تيريس سادابا

Notable figure 1915–1983 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 366 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Terés, Elías (1915-1983)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Arabic professor; studied Ibn Faraj's al-Hada'iq

Biography

Born in Navarre, he graduated from the University of Madrid with a doctoral thesis on Ibn Faraj al-Jayyani and his anthology al-Hada'iq (1946). He became professor of Arabic at Barcelona, then at Madrid (1952). He wrote on Andalusi literature (1952–1954) and on the old Arab lineages of al-Andalus (1956–1957), edited with Dubler the Arabic Dioscorides with a Spanish translation (Tetouan, 1956), and worked on the Spanish–Arabic dictionary of the Instituto Hispano-Árabe.