James Kritzeck
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James Kritzeck (born 1930) is a scholar of Islam who specialises in Islamic literature and its translation. He is the author of 'Anthology of Islamic Literature'.
He was educated at St John's Abbey and Princeton University (New Jersey) and elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard University in 1952. As well as travelling through much of the Islamic world in order to increase his knowledge of Islamic works, Kritzeck studied Islam through reading and teaching, among other scholarly luminaries as Henry Corbin, Louis Massignon and Herbert Mason. Translating and evaluating scriptures, Kritzeck became frustrated with the attitudes and ignorance of the Western world towards what he considered such intricate and sometimes beautiful literature.
The book 'Anthology of Islamic Literature' is a collection of Islamic writings, chronologically compiled from the Qur'an up until the 18th century. Ironically a sceptic of translation, Kritzeck strove to include only the finest and most accurate interpretations of poetry, prose and of course Qur'an verse.
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