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Bayard Dodge

بايارد دودج

Notable figure 1888–1972 · Source: American University of Beirut, Archives: Bayard Dodge Collection, finding aid · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France: The Fihrist of al-Nadim, Bayard Dodge, editor and translator (1970)

From the United States; worked in Lebanon and Egypt

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translated Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist into English (1970)

Biography

Born in New York, he moved to Beirut (1913) and was president of its American University (1923–48), then taught at Columbia, Princeton and the American University in Cairo. He edited and translated Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist from the Arabic into English in two volumes (New York 1970), and wrote Al-Azhar: A Millennium of Muslim Learning (1961).