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Paul Kahle

باول كاله

Notable figure 1875–1964 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 789; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 856 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (GND 118714678): Kahle, Paul (1875–1964)

From Germany; worked in Egypt and the United Kingdom

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Arabic shadow plays: Der Leuchtturm (1930)

Biography

Born in Hohenstein, East Prussia, he studied Oriental languages at Marburg, Halle and Berlin, lived in Cairo (1903–1908), then taught at Giessen and Bonn and moved to Oxford after 1938. In Egypt he collected shadow-play texts and figures; he published the play Liʿb al-manar in Arabic with a German translation as Der Leuchtturm von Alexandria (Stuttgart 1930), and prepared the edition of Ibn Daniyal's three shadow plays that appeared after his death. With Muhammad Mustafa he also edited parts of Ibn Iyas's Badaʾiʿ al-zuhur.