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Wiebke Walther

فيبكه فالتر

Notable figure 1935–2023 · Source: Schriftenverzeichnis Wiebke Walther, University of Tübingen (2025); Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 9, al-Zalimi, p. 143 · Second source: Imke Ahlf-Wien, Über Hadithe und Adab, der Freitag, on Walther's Kleine Geschichte der arabischen Literatur (2004)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

The Arabian Nights, Arabic prose, translations of Mahfouz

Biography

A German and professor at Tübingen. She worked on Arabic prose old and new, especially the Thousand and One Nights, on literary translation, especially Naguib Mahfouz, and on women in Islam. Her bibliography lists 354 items.