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Emilio García Gómez

إميليو غارثيا غوميث

Notable figure 1905–1995 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 610; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 161 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: García Gómez, Emilio (1905-1995)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of Andalusi poetry; Poemas arábigoandaluces (1930)

Biography

Born in Madrid, he graduated from its university in 1926 and taught Arabic at Granada and, from 1940, at Madrid, where he directed the School of Arabic Studies. He rendered Andalusi poets into Spanish verse, edited and translated Ibn Saʿid al-Maghribi's Rayat al-mubarrizin (1942), translated Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-hamama (1952), wrote on the muwashshahat and their kharjas, and translated Taha Husayn's al-Ayyam (1954).