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Ángel González Palencia

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Notable figure 1889–1949 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 583; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 451 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: González Palencia, Ángel (1889-1949)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Author of Historia de la literatura arábigo-española (1928)

Biography

He graduated from the University of Madrid in 1919 and in 1927 succeeded Ribera y Tarragó in its chair of the history of Islamic and Jewish civilisation. He wrote the Historia de la literatura arábigo-española (1928), edited Abu l-Salt al-Dani's Taqwim al-dhihn with a Spanish translation (1915), and co-compiled the catalogue of Arabic and aljamiado manuscripts in Madrid (1912).