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Alois Richard Nykl
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Alois Richard Nykl

ألويس ريشارد نيكل

Notable figure 1885–1958 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1014; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1059 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Nykl, Alois Richard (1885-1958)

From Czechia; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of Hispano-Arabic poetry; edited Ibn Quzman (1933)

Biography

Born in Bohemia, he worked in the United States. He translated Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-hamama into English from its single manuscript (1931), edited Ibn Dawud al-Isfahani's Kitab al-Zahra with Ibrahim Tuqan, published the zajals of Ibn Quzman in Latin transcription (Madrid, 1933), and wrote Hispano-Arabic Poetry and its Relations with the Old Provençal Troubadours (1946).