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Juan Vernet Ginés

خوان فيرنيت خينيس

Notable figure 1923–2011 · Source: Joan Vernet i Ginés, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 17, p. 167 · Second source: Miquel Forcada, Joan Vernet (1923–2011) and the Light of the East and West, IEMed

Field: Qur'an translation

Affiliation

Barcelona chair of Arabic; Spanish Qur'an and Arabian Nights

Biography

A Catalan from Barcelona, he won the chair of Arabic language and literature at its university (1954) and stayed there for the rest of his career. He translated the Qur'an into Spanish (1953, 1963) and the complete Thousand and One Nights (1964–1967). Most of his research was on the history of Arabic science.