Muhammad Mustafa Badawi

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Muhammad Mustafa Badawi
محمد مصطفى بدوي
Born10 June 1925
Alexandria, Egypt
Died19 April 2012(2012-04-19) (aged 86)
Oxford, United Kingdom
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of London
ThesisColeridge: Critic of Shakespeare
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish and Arabic literature
Notable studentsSasson Somekh, Roger Allen (translator)

Mohammed Mustafa Badawi (

St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford from 1967 to 1969, and was then elected to the College's Governing Body. Upon retirement in 1992, he became an Emeritus Fellow.[2]

Badawi was born in Egypt in 1925. He received as PhD at the

Brasenose College until retirement in 1992. He became a fellow of St. Antony's College (1967-2012), where he was the first lecturer in Modern Arabic at the new Middle East Centre of the college.[4]

Badawi's notable students include: Emeritus Professor Sasson Somekh of Tel Aviv University and Dr. Roger Allen of the University of Pennsylvania[5]

Over his academic career he published over thirty-six books, studies of English literature, of modern Arabic literature, and translations of Arabic literature into English. Upon his retirement he was awarded the

King Faisal International Prize in Arabic Literature.[6]

He left an endowment at Oxford University for the payment of the "Mustafa Badawi Prize in Modern Arabic Literature" which is awarded for "the best English essay on some aspect of modern Arabic literature of up to 15,000 words." which demonstrated, "sensitivity to modern Arabic literary texts as well as some originality and skill in critical analysis."[7]

Upon his retirement, a festschrift in his honour was published as a special issue of Journal of Arabic literature [8]

Bibliography

Academic works

Translations into English

  • Naguib Mahfouz, The thief and the dogs ; translated from the Arabic by Trevor Le Gassick and M.M. Badawi. New York : Doubleday, 1984
  • Ḥaqqī, Yaḥyá, The Saint's Lamp and Other Stories. Leiden: Brill, 1973

Translations into Arabic

  • Fīlīb lārkīn: Muḫtārāt šiʿriyya. Philip Larkin: Selection. Al-Majlis al-A'lami li-l-Thaqafa, 1998.

Other

References

  1. ^ LC authority file
  2. ^ St Antony's College News, 2012. Archived 2013-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ WorldCat
  4. ^ "Middle East Centre". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  5. ^ "Roger Allen Home Page". Archived from the original on 2012-05-06. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  6. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2012-04-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ "Mustafa Badawi Prize in Modern Arabic Literature - Faculty of Oriental Studies - University of Oxford". Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  8. ^ "The quest for freedom in modern Arabic literature : essays in honour of Mustafa Badawi" ed. Robin Ostle Journal of Arabic literature, Vol. 26, No. 1/2 , 1995. WorldCat item record
  9. ^ WorldCat
  10. ^ "Egypt".

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