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Robert Bertram Serjeant

روبرت برترام سرجنت

Notable figure 1915–1993 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 560; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 679 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 130286567: Serjeant, Robert B. (1915–1993)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic; Prose and Poetry from Hadramawt (1951)

Biography

Born in Edinburgh, he studied there and at Cambridge. He lectured in Arabic at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London from 1941, became its Professor of Modern Arabic in 1955, and in 1970 took the Sir Thomas Adams's Chair of Arabic at Cambridge. He collected vernacular prose and verse in Hadramawt, fixed and glossed the texts, and published them with a long English introduction as Prose and Poetry from Hadramawt (London 1951). He also catalogued the Arabic, Persian and Hindustani manuscripts of New College, Edinburgh (1942).