biography
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Ribera y Tarragó, Julián
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pronunciation:
[reevera ee taragoh
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1858–1934)
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| biography:
| Linguist, born in Carcagente, Valencia, E Spain. He was Professor of Arabic at Zaragoza University, and later in Madrid. With his teacher Francisco Codera he edited the 10-vol Bibliotheca Arábigo–Hispana (1882–93). He specialized in Muslim law and learning in Spain, and wrote La enseñanza entre los musulmanes españoles (1893), Bibliófilos y bibliotecas de la España musulmana (1896), La épica entre los musulmanes españoles (1915), and the collection Disertaciones y opúsculos (1928). He translated the Crónica of Ibn al-Qutia, and edited al-Khushani's Historia de los jueces de Córdoba and the Cancionero of Ibn Guzman (1912), from which he demonstrated the coexistence of Romance dialect with literary Arabic among the mozárabes. Ribera's Música de las ‘Cantigas’ (1922) shows how music in Muslim Spain derived from local, classical, and oriental sources, and influenced the music of the Provençal troubadours. |
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