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Serafín Fanjul

سرافين فانخول

Notable figure b. 1945 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 380 · Second source: Real Academia de la Historia, academician page: Serafín Fanjul García

From Spain; worked in Egypt

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic literature, Madrid; al-Jahiz translator

Biography

Born in Madrid, he studied at its university and took his doctorate in 1973 with a thesis on the Egyptian mawwal. He directed the Spanish Cultural Centre in Cairo and taught at the al-Alsun school there, then became professor of Arabic literature at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He wrote Literatura popular árabe (1977) and translated into Spanish al-Jahiz's Book of Misers (1984), the Maqamat of Badiʿ al-Zaman al-Hamadhani (1988) and Ibn Battuta's travels (1981).