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Jan Brugman

يان بروخمان

Notable figure 1923–2004 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 238 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Brugman, Jan (1923-2004)

From the Netherlands; worked in Egypt

Field: Literature

Affiliation

Leiden professor of Arabic; modern Egyptian literature

Biography

He served at the Netherlands embassy in Cairo (1948–1951), took his doctorate with a thesis on the application of Islamic law in Egypt, and taught Arabic at Leiden University. He co-edited the Arabic version of Aristotle's De animalibus in the translation of Yahya ibn al-Bitriq, with introduction and indexes (Leiden, 1971), wrote on modern Arabic and Palestinian Arabic literature, and wrote An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt (Leiden, 1984).