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James E. Montgomery

جيمس إدوارد مونتغمري

Notable figure b. 1962 · Source: Trinity Hall, Cambridge, profile: Professor James Montgomery · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 143167049: Montgomery, James Edward (b. 1962), Arabist

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Early poetry and al-Jahiz; The Vagaries of the Qasidah

Biography

He holds the Sir Thomas Adams's Chair of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. He studied the early ode in The Vagaries of the Qaṣīdah (Cambridge, 1997), wrote Al-Jāḥiẓ: In Praise of Books (Edinburgh, 2013), and translated the poetry of ʿAntarah for the Library of Arabic Literature (2018). He edited the English translation of Gregor Schoeler's lectures on the oral and the written in early Islam (2006).