Bahnassi, Afif
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Name (Latin)
Bahnassi, Afif
Name (Arabic)
البهنسي، عفيف، 1928-
Other forms of name
Bahnasī, ʻAfīf
al-Bahnasi, 'Afif
بهنسي، عفيف، 1928-
Date of birth
1928
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His Damascus, ash-Sham, 1982:jacket (Docteur Afif Bahnassi)
- His Die Kunst des alten Syrien, c1987:t.p. (al-Duktūr ʻAfīf Bahnasī) p. 4 (Dr. Afif Bahnassi, b. 1928 in Damaskus)
- Muʻjam muṣṭalaḥāt al-khaṭṭ al-ʻArabī wa-al-khaṭṭāṭīn, 1995:t.p. (al-Duktūr ʻAfīf al-Bahnasī)
- Sztuka Palmyry ze zbiorów Arabskiej ... 1986:verso t.p. (Afif Bahnassi) p. 10 (general director of antiquities and museums, Syria)
- The Author's
Wikipedia description:
Afif Bahnassi (Arabic: عفيف البهنسي; 17 April 1928 – 2 November 2017) was a Syrian art historian, museum director and academic, regarded as one of the founders of modern Arab and Islamic art history. He served as Director of Fine Arts in the Syrian Ministry of Culture from 1962 to 1971 and as Director-General of Antiquities and Museums from 1971 to 1989. He authored more than seventy-five books on art history, aesthetics, and Islamic architecture, and was a professor at the University of Damascus for over five decades.
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