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Ilse Lichtenstadter

إلزه ليشتنشتيتر

Notable figure 1907–1991 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 555; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 969 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lichtenstadter, Ilse (1907-1991)

From Germany; worked in the United Kingdom and the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of early Arabic poetry; editor of Kitab al-Muhabbar

Biography

She studied Arabic at Frankfurt, taking doctorates there (1931) and at Oxford (1937), and taught at Harvard. She wrote on Arabic poetry (1932), the Ayyam al-ʿArab (1935), the modern analysis of Arabic poetry (1941) and the concept of adab (1943), edited Muhammad ibn Habib's Kitab al-Muhabbar (Hyderabad, 1942), and wrote Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature (New York, 1974).