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, au ...

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 university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

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 Rev. David Stuart Dodge (1836–1921) was a friend and supporter of the Reverend Dr. Daniel Bliss, the founder of the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut. Dodge became the professor for English and modern languages at the institute, a position he he ...

, 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 Ameri ...

, 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 dy ...

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

Sabian Sabian may refer to: *Sabians, name of a religious group mentioned in the Quran, historically adopted by: **Mandaeans, Gnostic sect from the marshlands of southern Iraq claiming John the Baptist as their most important prophet **Sabians of Harran, ...

s of

Harran Harran (), historically known as Carrhae ( el, Kάρραι, Kárrhai), is a rural town and district of the Şanlıurfa Province in southeastern Turkey, approximately 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Urfa and 20 kilometers from the border cr ...

'' 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 languages, 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 ...

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.

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

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