{"id":1130,"date":"2013-07-23T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T07:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/kfips\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:23:54","slug":"profesor-ihsan-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/profesor-ihsan-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Ihsan Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n

Ihsan Abbas received his basic education in Haifa and Acre, and graduated as a teacher from the Arabic language college in Jerusalem in 1941. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees in Arabic Literature from Fuad Al-Awal (currently Cairo) University in 1954.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to his numerous scholarly articles and reviews, Professor Abbas authored 75 books covering not only a wide range of modern and ancient Arabic literature but also history, geography, law, science and political thought. His works included seminal contributions to the founding principles of the modern edited texts and groundbreaking work on the Arabic literary legacy of Muslim Spain. Among his books on modern Arabic poetry are <\/span>Modern Trends in Contemporary Arabic Poetry<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab,<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Bayati<\/span><\/i>. Abbas also translated and co-translated 12 books, including <\/span>The Poetics of Aristotle<\/span><\/i> by Samuel Butcher, <\/span>The Achievements of T.S. Eliot<\/span><\/i> by Matthiessen, <\/span>The Writer as Artist<\/span><\/i> by Carlos Baker, <\/span>The Arab Awakening<\/span><\/i> by George Antonius, <\/span>The Armed Vision<\/span><\/i> by Stanley Hyman, and <\/span>Moby Dick<\/span><\/i> by Herman Melville. Some of the books and articles written by Professor Ihsan Abbas have become standard readings of Arabic literature in many universities around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Ihsan Abbas was a Professor Emeritus at the American University in Beirut (AUB) in 1961. He served earlier as a Chair of Arabic Language and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at AUB, a Professor of Arabic Literature at Khartoum University and the Jordanian University, and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. He was also a member of the Royal Jordanian Academy, the Arabic language academies in Cairo and Damascus, the German Oriental Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Ihsan Abbas received his basic education in Haifa and Acre, and graduated as a teacher from the Arabic language college in Jerusalem in 1941. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees in Arabic Literature from Fuad Al-Awal (currently Cairo) University in 1954. In addition to his numerous scholarly articles and reviews, Professor Abbas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabic_language_and_literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}