Bayard Dodge

Bayard Dodge (1888–1972) was an American scholar of Islam and president of the American University in Beirut.

Background

The son of Cleveland Hoadley Dodge and Grace Wainwright Parish, he graduated from Princeton University in 1909.^[1]

Career

In 1923 Dodge succeed his father-in-law, Howard Bliss, to become the president of a university in Beirut then known as the Syrian Protestant College.^[2] His great uncle, Reverend David Stuart Dodge, had been one of the first professors to teach at the faculty in the 1860s. Dorothy Rowntree, the first woman engineering graduate from the University of Glasgow, worked as Bayard Dodge's personal assistant at the university in Beirut.^[3]

After his retirement from the presidency in 1948 he continued teaching at several universities.^[1] His son, David S. Dodge, later served the same role.^[4]

Works

The American University of Beirut: A Brief History of the University and the Lands Which It Serves, Beirut, Khayat's, 1958
Aspects of the Fatimid Philosophy, The Muslim World, L, No.3 (Jul, 1960)
Al-Azhar Mosque: A Millennium of Muslim Learning. Washington, Middle East Institute (1961) – a comprehensive history of the world famous university mosque of Cairo.^[5]
The Fatimid Hierarchy and Exegesis, The Muslim World, L, No.2 (Apr, 1960), pp. 130–41
The Fatimid Legal Code, ibid., L, No.1 (Jan 1960), pp. 30–38
Al-Isma'iliyah and the Origin of the Fatimids, ibid, XLIX, No.4 (Oct 1959), pp. 295–305
Muslim Education in Medieval Times, Washington, Middle East Institute, 1962
The Sabians of Harran in Sarruf, ed., American University of Beirut Festival Book: Festschrift, pp. 60–85.
The Fihrist of al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey of Islamic Culture.^[6] An English translation of the 10th-century Arabic encyclopedia by the Baghdadī bibliophile, Ibn Ishāq al-Nadīm.

Family Tree of Bayard Dodge^[7]

David Low Dodge
(1774–1852)

Married
1798

Sarah Cleveland
(1780–1862)

Anson Green Phelps
(1781–1853)

Married
1806

Olivia Egleston
(1784–1859)

William Earl Dodge
(1805–1883)

Married
1828

Melissa Phelps
(1809–1903)

William E. Dodge, Jr.
(1832–1903)
m.1854
Sarah Hoadley
(1832–1909)

Anson Greene Phelps Dodge
(1834–1918)
m(1).1859
Rebecca Grew
(1836–1927)
m(2).1886
Rachel Rose Voorhees
(1852–1910)

Reverend David Stuart Dodge
(1836–1921)
m(1).1860
Ellen Ada Phelps
(1838–1880)
m(2).1885
Elizabeth Scott Boyd
(1846–1888)

Charles Cleveland Dodge
(1841–1910)
m.1863
Maria Theresa
Bradhurst Schieffelin
(1840–1910)

Norman White Dodge
(1846–1907)
m(1).1869
Grace Gillette
(1848–1870)
m(2).1880
Emma Hartley
(1849–1881)

George Eglestone
Dodge
(1849–1904)
m.1874
May Cossitt
(1853–1911)

Arthur Murray Dodge
(1852–1896)
m.1875
Josephine Jewell
(1855–1928)

Grace Hoadley Dodge
(1856–1914)

William Earl Dodge III
(1858–1886)
m.1879
Emmeline Harriman

Cleveland Hoadley Dodge
(1860–1926)
m.1883
Grace Parish
(1858–1949)

Mary Melissa Hoadley Dodge
(1861–1934)

Alice Clinton Hoadley Dodge
(1865–1948)
m.1886
William Church Osborn
(1861–1951)

Morris Jesup Dodge
(1867–1875)

Elizabeth Wainwright Dodge
(1884–1976)
m(1).1916
George Herbert Huntington
(1878–1953)
m(2).1956
Rev. Dr. Dumont Clark
(1884–1960)

Julia Parish Dodge
(1886–1965)
m.1911
James Childs Rea
(1882–1973)

Cleveland Earl Dodge
(1888–1982)
m.1919
Pauline Morgan
(1893–1971)

Bayard Dodge
(1888–1972)
m.1914
Mary Bliss
(1890–1982)

References

^ ^a ^b "Bayard Dodge Collection of Photographs of the Middle East". Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
^ "Bayard Dodge Head of Beirut College" (PDF). The New York Times Company. 6 October 1922.
^ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Dorothy Rowntree". universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
^ Hijazi, Ihsan (21 July 1982). "Lebanon and P.L.O join in search for American". The New York Times. p. 8.
^ Summerfield, Carol; Devine, Mary; Levi, Anthony, eds. (1998), International Dictionary of University Histories, Taylor & Francis, p. 13, ISBN 978-1-884964-23-7
^ Bayard Dodge editor and translator (2 vols, Columbia University Press, New York & London, 1970)
^ Dodge, Phyllis (1987). Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family. New York Historical Society. p. Inside front cover.

[princeton-1] "Bayard Dodge Collection of Photographs of the Middle East". Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011.

[2] "Bayard Dodge Head of Beirut College" (PDF). The New York Times Company. 6 October 1922.

[3] "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Dorothy Rowntree". universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2019.

[4] Hijazi, Ihsan (21 July 1982). "Lebanon and P.L.O join in search for American". The New York Times. p. 8.

[5] Summerfield, Carol; Devine, Mary; Levi, Anthony, eds. (1998), International Dictionary of University Histories, Taylor & Francis, p. 13, ISBN 978-1-884964-23-7

[6] Bayard Dodge editor and translator (2 vols, Columbia University Press, New York & London, 1970)

[7] Dodge, Phyllis (1987). Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family. New York Historical Society. p. Inside front cover.

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