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Richard Bell

ريتشارد بِل

Notable figure 1876–1952 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 261 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bell, Richard (1876-1952)

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Arabic lecturer at Edinburgh; translator of the Qur'an

Biography

He taught Arabic at the University of Edinburgh and spent many years on the Qur'an and the history of its text. His English translation (1937–1939) set out to analyse the suras by the methods of literary criticism, and in the Transactions of the Glasgow Oriental Society he wrote on the style of the Qur'an (1942–1944) and on early literary relations between al-Andalus and the East (1947–1949).