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Samuel Miklós Stern

صموئيل ميكلوش شترن

Notable figure 1920–1969 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 731 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Stern, Samuel Miklós (1920-1969), born Tab (Hungary)

From Hungary; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of the Andalusian muwashshah and its kharjas

Biography

Born in Tab, Hungary, he worked at the University of Oxford. He published studies of the Andalusian muwashshah and its Romance final lines, among them an Arabic muwashshah with Spanish rhymes (1949) and Les chansons mozarabes (Palermo, 1953), and wrote on Ibn Quzman (1951) and on the manuscripts of Abu l-ʿAla al-Maʿarri's poetry (1954). His work in the field was collected after his death as Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry (Oxford, 1974).