Abdulaziz Saud Albabtain (1936 – 15 December 2023) was a Kuwaiti poet and businessman. He was the Head of the Albabtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity.[1]

Biography

Abdulaziz Al-Babtain was born in 1936.[2] He established the Albabtain Central Library for Arabic poetry.[3]

In 2004 he established the Albabtain Translation Center[4] to support translations into and from Arabic.

The Al-Babtain Foundation for Poetic Creativity called in January 2016 for contributions to an Arabic epic on themes of peace, tolerance and love.[5]

Beginning in 2016, Al-Babtain also endowed the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professorship in Arabic in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Formerly known as the Laudian Chair of Arabic, it was first endowed in 1636 by Archbishop William Laud and is one of the oldest Chairs of Arabic in Europe.[6]

Al-Babtain died on 15 December 2023, at the age of 87.[1][2]

Poetry collections

Abdulaziz Al-Babtain published 3 poetry collections, they are listed below:

  • He published his first collection of poems, “Bouh Al-Bawadi” in 1995.[7][8]
  • He published his second collection of poems, “A Traveler in the Wastelands” (Arabic: ديوان مسافر في القفار) in 2004.[7]
  • He published his third collection of poems, “Songs of Al-Fayafi” in 2017.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "NCCAL mourns Abdulaziz Al-Babtain". KUNA. 15 December 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  2. 1 2 "وفاة الشاعر الكويتي عبدالعزيز البابطين.. رجل الأدب والعطاء (بروفايل)". العين الإخبارية (in Arabic). 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Al-Babtain Library". Official. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Al-Babtain Translation Center". Al-Babtain Prize. Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "La Fondation du Prix d'Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain pour la créativité lance une épopée poétique arabe sur la paix". Médias 24 (in French). 13 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Celebrating support for the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Chair in Arabic".
  7. 1 2 3 "دواوين الشاعر عبدالعزيز سعود البابطين" [Collections of poet Saud Al-Babtain]. مكتبة البابطين المركزية للشعر العربي (in Arabic). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  8. ↑ "A Cross Sectional Study Of The Poetry Of Abdul Aziz Saud Al Babtain Through His Poetry Bouh Al Bawadi Mahj".
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