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George Abraham Makdisi was born in Detroit, Michigan, on May 15, 1920. He died in Media, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 2002.[1] He was a professor oforiental studies. He studied first in the United States, and later in Lebanon. He then graduated in 1964 in France from theParis-Sorbonne University.
He taught in theUniversity of Michigan andHarvard University before reaching the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, as a professor of Arabic. Here he remained until his retirement in 1990, when he held the post of director of the Department of Oriental Studies. He became a Professor Emeritus of "Arab and Islamic Studies" in the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
He was particularly interested in issues around higher education in the world.
He published an Arabic edition of the work by IBN AQIL,Al-Wāḍiḥ fi Usul al-fiqh (The Obvious in the Principles of Jurisprudence), in three volumes, published inStuttgart, Germany bySteiner Verlag and reprinted byKlaus Schwarz.
He published an Arabic edition of a portion of IBN AQIL's huge work,Kitab al-Funun, 2 vols., printed in Beirut 1970-71.
He was a member and honorary member of numerous professional scientific organizations. Among other honors, he was twice aGuggenheim fellow.[2] In 1977, he served as the President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, now based in Tucson, Arizona, United States.
