Magdi Wahba

**Magdi Wahba** (1925–1991) farfesa ce a jami'ar Masar, masanin Johnson, kuma mai rubuta ƙamus .

An haife shi a Alexandria a shekarar 1925, ɗan wani alkalin kotu ( Mourad Wahba Pasha) daga baya kuma ministan majalisar ministoci. Mahaifiyarsa ta yi karatu a Kwalejin Mata ta Cheltenham da Jami'ar Oxford . Jikan Firayim Minista ( Youssef Wahba Pasha) ya kasance ɗan mulkin mallaka na Masar a lokacin amma duk da haka memba ne na jam'iyyar kwaminis a lokacin ƙuruciyarsa. Ya kammala karatunsa a Jami'ar Alkahira da Sorbonne inda ya sami Difloma a fannin Babban Nazarin Shari'a na Duniya a Paris (1947). Ya yanke shawarar bin diddigin sha'awarsa a fannin adabin Turanci kuma ya je Kwalejin Exeter, Jami'ar Oxford, kuma ya sami digiri na B.Litt. da D.Phil. a shekarar 1957.

A tsakanin shekarun 1957-1966 da 1970-1980, Wahba ya koyar da adabin Turanci a Jami'ar Alkahira, Masar. A wannan lokacin ya fara Bulletin Annual of English Studies wanda daga baya ya zama Cairo Studies in English wanda Sashen Harshe da Adabi na Turanci suka buga. Ya ci gaba da kula da ɗaliban PhD marasa adadi a matsayin farfesa na meritus. Bayan rasuwarsa, an sanya wa ɗakin karatu na Sashen Turanci a Jami'ar Alkahira suna saboda sunansa.

Ya kuma yi aiki na tsawon shekaru huɗu tsakanin 1966 da 1970 a matsayin Mataimakin Sakataren Harkokin Waje na Ma'aikatar Al'adu ta Masar inda ya shirya taron Millennium na Alkahira a shekarar 1967 don murnar cika shekaru dubu na birnin Alkahira. Mutane da yawa suna ɗaukar taron a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan abubuwan da suka faru a tarihin Masar na baya-bayan nan. Ya haɗa da malamai daga ko'ina cikin duniya, ciki har da malamai kamar Bernard Lewis, duk da tausayawarsa ga Isra'ila.

Muhimman gudummawar da ya bayar ga adabi sun haɗa da wasu daga cikin fassarar Turanci na marubutan Masar Naguib Mahfouz da Taha Hussein . Ya kuma gyara sigar ayyukan marubutan da ake da su a yanzu a Turanci. Ya kasance sanannen masanin Samuel Johnson, yana gyara *Johnsonian Studies*, wanda ya haɗa da littafin Johnson da James Clifford da Donald Greene suka rubuta. Wahba ya gabatar wa mai karatu Larabci fassarar Larabci ta farko ta *Rasselas* ta Johnson a 1959 da kuma *The Canterbury Tales* ta Chaucer a 1984. Ya gyara laccocin tunawa da cika shekaru 100 na mutuwar Samuel Johnson wanda aka yi bikin a Jami'ar Oxford a 1986, wanda Longman ya buga. A 1989, jim kaɗan kafin rasuwarsa, ya buga wani labari a cikin Mujallar Adabin Larabci mai suna "An Anger Observed" wanda ya taƙaita fushi da zato da duniyar Musulmi ke ji game da Yamma. An fassara wannan labarin jim kaɗan bayan an fassara shi zuwa Larabci kuma an yi ta ganinsa sosai a tsakanin malaman Musulunci a matsayin misali na yadda zai yiwu a fahimci ra'ayin Musulmi da kuma haɓaka tattaunawa tsakanin duniyar Musulmi da Yammacin duniya.

Wahba ya samar da ayyuka da dama na ƙamus, ciki har da ƙamus na Turanci da Larabci da dama. *Kamus na Kalmomin Adabi*, wanda aka buga a shekarar 1974 kuma aka sake buga shi sau da yawa, ya zama kayan aiki mai mahimmanci ga masana adabi na kwatantawa a duniyar Larabawa. A shekarar 1989 ya buga *Al-Mukhtar: a Concise English-Arabic Dictionary*, wanda aka ɗauka a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin ƙamus mafi cikakken bayani irinsa. An bi *Mukhtar* da *An Nafeess*, wanda aka buga bayan mutuwarsa.

An zaɓe shi memba na Kwalejin Harshen Larabci da ke Alkahira a shekarar 1980, haka kuma memba na Cibiyar Nazarin Harshen Larabci (wanda Bonaparte ya kafa a shekarar 1798) kuma ya zama babban sakatarenta jim kaɗan bayan haka. Ya kuma kasance memba mai himma a Kwamitin Falsafa da Kimiyyar Zamani na Duniya (CIPSH). Duk da cewa ya guji mukaman siyasa (ya ƙi mukamin minista da Shugaba Sadat ya bayar), ya kasance memba na Majalisar Shura (Majalisar Dattawan Masar), yana bin sawun mahaifinsa da kakansa Youssef Wahba . Ya mutu a Landan a shekarar 1991 sakamakon cutar sankarau.

## Manazarta

* Baraka, Magda (1998). *Babban Ajin Masar tsakanin Juyin Juya Halin 1919-1952* . Karatu: Ithaca Press.
* Nazarin Alƙahira a Turanci (1990). *Makaloli don Girmama Magdi Wahba* . Sashen Harshe da Adabi na Turanci, Jami'ar Alƙahira, Alƙahira ne ya buga.
* Vatikiotis, PJ (1997). *Gabas ta Tsakiya: Daga ƙarshen Daular zuwa ƙarshen Yaƙin Cacar Baki* . London: Routledge.
* Wahba, Magdi (ed.)(1962). Nazarin Johnsonian: Har da Littafin Nazarin Johnsonian, 1950–1960 An tattara ta James L. Clifford da Donald J. Greene . Alkahira: Oxford University Press.
* Wahba, Magdi (1974). *Kamus na Kalmomin Adabi, Turanci-Faransanci-Larabci* . Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
* Wahba, Magdi (1989). *Al Mukhtar: Ƙamus na Turanci-Larabci mai takaitacce* . Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
* Wahba, Magdi (1989). "An Lura da Fushi". Mujallar Adabin Larabci, Vol. XX, London: Brill.
* Wahba, Magdi (1990). *Tunawa da Alkahira a Nazarin Tarihin Larabawa: Lakcocin Antonius, 1978–87* . Derek Hopwood ne ya gyara shi. London: Macmillan Press.