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Marsden Jones

مارسدن جونز

Notable figure 1920–1992 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 563; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 452 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Jones, Marsden (1920-1992)

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

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Waqidi; bibliographer of Egyptian writers

Biography

Born in Wales, he took a degree in Arabic at the University of London (1950) and a doctorate there (1953), taught Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and then founded and directed the Center for Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo. He edited al-Waqidi's Kitab al-maghazi in three volumes (1966) and, with Hamdi Sakkut, published a series on twentieth-century Egyptian writers, including volumes on Taha Husayn and al-ʿAqqad.