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John Owen Hunwick

جون أوين هونويك

Notable figure 1936–2015 · Source: John Owen Hunwick, June 1, 1936 – April 1, 2015, Northwestern University; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 4, al-Zalimi, pp. 136–137 · Second source: John O. Hunwick, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, Northwestern University

From the United Kingdom; worked in Nigeria and the United States

Field: Manuscript cataloguing

Affiliation

Arabic Literature of Africa; West African Arabic manuscripts

Biography

An Englishman from Somerset, he took his Arabic degree at SOAS in London and taught it at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria from 1960, helping to set up its Centre of Arabic Documentation to catalogue manuscripts. He later became a professor at Northwestern University (1981–2004), founded an institute for the study of Islamic thought in Africa, produced the series Arabic Literature of Africa with R. S. O'Fahey, and worked on the Timbuktu manuscripts.