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Bayard Dodge (1888–1972) was an American scholar of Islam and president of the
American University in Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...
.


Background

The son of
Cleveland Hoadley Dodge Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (January 26, 1860June 24, 1926) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was active in New York City politics and was president of Phelps Dodge mining and served as "adviser and financier" to Woodrow ...
and Grace Wainwright Parish, he graduated from
Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
in 1909.


Career

In 1923 Dodge succeed his father-in-law, Howard Bliss, to become the president of a university in Beirut then known as the Syrian Protestant College. His great uncle, Reverend David Stuart Dodge, had been one of the first professors to teach at the faculty in the 1860s. Dorothy Rowntree, the first woman engineering graduate from the University of Glasgow, worked as Bayard Dodge's personal assistant at the university in Beirut. After his retirement from the presidency in 1948 he continued teaching at several universities. His son,
David S. Dodge David Stuart Dodge (November 17, 1922 – January 20, 2009) was an American politician and university president. He was the Vice-President for Administration (1979–83), Acting President (1981–82) and President (1996–97) of the Amer ...
, later served the same role.


Works

*''Aspects of the
Fatimid The Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Fatimids, a dyna ...
Philosophy'', The Muslim World, L, No.3 (Jul, 1960) *''
Al-Azhar Mosque Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic ...
: A Millennium of Muslim Learning''. Washington, Middle East Institute (1961) - a comprehensive history of the world famous university mosque of Cairo. *''The Fatimid Hierarchy and Exegesis'', The Muslim World, L, No.2 (Apr, 1960), pp. 130–41 *''The Fatimid Legal Code'', ibid., L, No.1 (Jan 1960), pp. 30–38 *''Al-Isma'iliyah and the Origin of the Fatimids'', ibid, XLIX, No.4 (Oct 1959), pp. 295–305 *''Muslim Education in Medieval Times'', Washington, Middle East Institute, 1962 *''The Sabians of
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'' in Sarruf, ed., American University of Beirut Festival Book: Festschrift, pp. 60–85. *'' The Fihrist of al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey of Islamic Culture''.Bayard Dodge editor and translator (2 vols, Columbia University Press, New York & London, 1970)
/ref> An English translation of the 10th-century
Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
encyclopedia by the
Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
ī bibliophile, Ibn Ishāq al-Nadīm.


See also

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William E. Dodge William Earl Dodge Sr. (September 4, 1805 – February 9, 1883) was an American businessman, politician, and activist. He was referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Dodg ...
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William E. Dodge Jr. William Earl Dodge Jr. (February 15, 1832 – August 9, 1903) was an American businessman, activist, and philanthropist. For many years, he was one of two controlling partners in the Phelps Dodge Corporation, one of the largest copper mining corpor ...
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Cleveland Hoadley Dodge Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (January 26, 1860June 24, 1926) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was active in New York City politics and was president of Phelps Dodge mining and served as "adviser and financier" to Woodrow ...
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David S. Dodge David Stuart Dodge (November 17, 1922 – January 20, 2009) was an American politician and university president. He was the Vice-President for Administration (1979–83), Acting President (1981–82) and President (1996–97) of the Amer ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dodge, Bayard Non-Muslim scholars of Islam Scholars of medieval Islamic history American orientalists American Arabists Arabic–English translators Historians of the Middle East Dodge family American University of Beirut faculty 1972 deaths 1888 births 20th-century translators