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María Jesús Viguera Molins

ماريا خيسوس بيغيرا مولينس

Notable figure b. 1945 · Source: University of Granada, laudatio for her honorary doctorate (2018) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Viguera, María Jesús

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Affiliation

With Corriente translated part of Ibn Hayyan's al-Muqtabis

Biography

Born at Ferrol, she took a doctorate in Semitic philology at the Complutense and held its chair of Arabic and Islamic studies from 1983. Her thesis (1973) rested on the edition and study of an unpublished Arabic manuscript of Ibn Marzuq at El Escorial. With Federico Corriente she translated and annotated Ibn Hayyan's al-Muqtabis V in Spanish (1981), and she translated Ibn Hudhayl's treatise on horses, Gala de caballeros (Madrid 1977). She is a member of the Royal Academy of History.