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Geert Jan van Gelder

خيرت يان فان خيلدر

Notable figure b. 1947 · Source: The British Academy, Fellow profile: Professor Geert Jan van Gelder FBA · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n83135836: Gelder, G. J. H. van (b. 10 June 1947)

From the Netherlands; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Classical criticism and poetry; Beyond the Line (1982)

Biography

He taught Arabic at the University of Groningen (1975–1998) and held the Laudian Chair of Arabic at Oxford (1998–2012). His Leiden thesis, Beyond the Line (1982), studied how classical Arab critics saw the unity of the poem; it was followed by The Bad and the Ugly (1988) on invective poetry and Of Dishes and Discourse (2000) on food in Arabic literature. With Gregor Schoeler he translated al-Maʿarri's Epistle of Forgiveness (New York, 2013–2014), and he compiled Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology (2013).