Bayard Dodge (1888–1972) was an American scholar of Islam and president of the American University in Beirut.

Background

The son of Cleveland Hoadley Dodge and Grace Wainwright Parish, he graduated from

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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, later served the same role.

Works

*''The American University of Beirut: A Brief History of the University and the Lands Which It Serves'', Beirut, Khayat's, 1958 *''Aspects of the

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Philosophy'', The Muslim World, L, No.3 (Jul, 1960) *'' Al-Azhar Mosque: 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)
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ī bibliophile, Ibn Ishāq al-Nadīm.

References

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

Background

Career

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