Geert Jan van Gelder

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Gerard Jan Henk van Gelder FBA (born 10 June 1947) is a Dutch academic who was the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2012.

Life

After completing his secondary education at the

University of Leiden
in 1982.

During the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, van Gelder was one of the so-called 'Cambridge Symposiasts', who gathered in odd-numbered years to discuss Classical Arabic poetry, particularly of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods; other participants included John Mattock, Renate Jacobi, James Montgomery, Thomas Bauer, and Arie Schippers.

Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. His publications include Beyond the Line: classical Arabic literary critics on the coherence and unity of the poem (1982) and Close Relationships: incest and inbreeding in classical Arabic literature (2005).[3]

References

  1. doi:10.2143/BIOR.69.5.2967237
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  2. ^ "Geert Jan van Gelder" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Van Gelder, Prof. Gerard Jan Henk". Who's Who 2010. Oxford University Press. November 2009. Retrieved 6 January 2010.

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