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Meir Jacob Kister

مائير يعقوب كيستر

Notable figure 1914–2010 · Source: Prof. M. J. Kister's Biography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 9, Jasim Kazim, pp. 131–140 · Second source: Roberto Tottoli, Meir J. Kister (1914–2010), Anaquel de Estudios Árabes

From Ukraine; worked in Palestine

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited al-Sulami's Adab al-suhba and al-Baladhuri's Ansab

Biography

A Jew born at Mościska in Galicia, now Ukraine, he reached Palestine in 1939 and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He taught Arabic in Haifa (1946–1958), compiled the chrestomathy al-Mujtana with Ahmad Idris, and became a professor at the Hebrew University in 1970. He edited al-Sulami's Adab al-suhba (1949) and part of al-Baladhuri's Ansab al-ashraf (1971).