Английская Википедия:Abdulaziz Al-Babtain

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Multiple issues Шаблон:Use dmy dates Abdulaziz Saud Albabtain (1936 – 15 December 2023) was a Kuwaiti poet and businessman. He was the Head of the Albabtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity.

Biography

Abdulaziz Al-Babtain was born in 1936.[1] He established the Albabtain Central Library for Arabic poetry.[2]

In 2004 he established the Albabtain Translation Center[3] to support translations into and from Arabic.

The Al-Babtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity called in January 2016 for contributions to an Arabic epic on themes of peace, tolerance and love.[4]

Beginning in 2016, Al-Babtain also endowed the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professorship in Arabic in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Formerly known as the Laudian Chair in Arabic, it was first endowed in 1636 by Archbishop William Laud and is one of the oldest Chairs of Arabic in Europe. [5]

Al-Babtain died on 15 December 2023, at the age of 87.[1]

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