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Roger Allen

روجر آلن

Notable figure b. 1942 · Source: University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences news: Professor Allen wins prize for Arabic literary translation · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n82024344: Allen, Roger (b. 24 Jan. 1942)

From the United Kingdom; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Historian of the Arabic novel; The Arabic Novel (1982)

Biography

He studied at Oxford and taught Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania for decades. He translated and studied Muhammad al-Muwaylihi's Hadith ʿIsa ibn Hisham (1974), and wrote The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (1982) and The Arabic Literary Heritage (Cambridge, 1998). He has translated works by Naguib Mahfouz and other Arab novelists into English.