Tawfīq Sāyigh
Tawfīq Sāyigh ( Arabic توفيق صايغ, DMG Taufīq Ṣāyiġ ; * 1923 in southern Syria ; † 1971 ) was a Christian-Palestinian poet and editor.
Life
Sāyigh's father was a Presbyterian clergyman. First the family moved to Palestine, and later to Lebanon. Sāyigh received his education at the Arab College in Jerusalem and at the American University in Beirut , where he received his Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1945 . Literature studies at Harvard , Oxford, Cambridge and London followed. He later received a teaching post for Arabic language and literature , also in Cambridge and London, and from 1962 to 1967 he was editor-in-chief of the newly founded culture magazine Hiwār .
Works (selection)
- Thalāthūn Qasīda (1954)
- al-Qasīda Kāf (1960)
- Muʿallaqat Taufīq Sāyigh (1963)
literature
- Isa J. Boullata: The beleaguered unicorn, a Study of Tawfīḳ Ṣāyigh , in JAL, IV (1973).
- W. Stoetzer: Article “Ṣāyigh” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. IX, Brill: Leiden, 1997, p. 113.
Individual evidence
- ↑ All works mentioned were published in Madschmūʿāt asch-schiʿriyya (London, 1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sāyigh, Tawfīq |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ṣāyiġ; Taufeq |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Christian-Palestinian poet and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southern Syria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |