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Edward Abbott Van Dyck

إدوارد فانديك

Notable figure 1846–1938 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 993; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 771 · Second source: American University of Beirut Libraries, online exhibit: Cornelius Van Dyck (1818–1895), listing his son Edward Abbott Van Dyck (1846–1938)

From the United States; worked in Lebanon and Egypt

Field: Literature and bibliography

Affiliation

Bibliographer; author of Iktifaʾ al-qanuʿ (1896)

Biography

Born in Lebanon, son of Cornelius Van Dyck, he graduated from the American college in Beirut and then taught English in Cairo. He compiled Iktifaʾ al-qanuʿ bi-ma huwa matbuʿ (al-Hilal Press, 1896), a bibliography of some 680 pages of Arabic books printed in East and West, and, with Philippidès, a history of the Arabs and their literature. He also reissued Knatchbull's English translation of Kalila wa-Dimna (Cairo, 1905).