{"id":733,"date":"2013-07-17T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T08:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/kfips\/?p=733"},"modified":"2024-05-13T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T09:40:12","slug":"professor-abd-alsattar-al-halwaji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/professor-abd-alsattar-al-halwaji\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Abd Alsattar Al-Halwaji"},"content":{"rendered":"&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abdulsattar Al-Halwaji obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree of Arabic Language and a Diploma of Education from the College of Arts at Cairo University and the College of Education at Ain Shams University, respectively, in 1959. Thereafter, he obtained an MA from London University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Cairo University in 1969 in Library Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Al-Halwaji is an expert in Islamic libraries, ancient manuscripts, and the development of book craft during early Islamic eras. One of his best-known books on this subject is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al-Makhtout Al-Arabi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (The Arabic Manuscript), an excellent research into the evolution of Arabic manuscripts, calligraphy, and book craft during the first four centuries of Islamic history. Al-Halwaji has also written many other books and research articles on the history of Islamic books and libraries. In addition, he edited an ancient text on book craft attributed to almu\u2019iz ibn Badis, and translated <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction to the History of Muslim East: A Bibliographical Guide<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Sauvaget and Cahen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Al-Halwaji\u2019s career as Professor of Library Science at Cairo University extended over many years, during which he assumed administrative offices such as a Chair of the Department of Library Science and Documents and a Vice-Dean of the College of Arts. He also taught for some time in Saudi Arabia. He is presently a Professor Emeritus at Cairo University and a Member of the Publications and Writers Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abdulsattar Al-Halwaji obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree of Arabic Language and a Diploma of Education from the College of Arts at Cairo University and the College of Education at Ain Shams University, respectively, in 1959. Thereafter, he obtained an MA from London University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from Cairo University in 1969 in Library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic_studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingfaisalprize.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}