Games Dickie

He was an academic specialized in the history of Islamic Spain and Sharî‘ah in the Universities of Manchester and Lankster and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also an advisor to the Islamic World Conference in 1974-1976.

In 1975, he published a revision and translation of ibn Shuhayd al-Andalusi’s anthology, after having published only a revision in 1969 in Cairo. He published many studies in some specialized and academic magazines and contributed to the Britannica Encyclopedia.

From The Legacy of Muslim Spain:

After a talk which revealed amazement over the Alhambra Palace in Granada, he says: “Indeed, the Alhambra in its brittle beauty epitomises an attitude explicable only in terms of Islamic philosophy; a work of such fragile elegance could not have been produced by any other civilization.”[1]

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[1] James Dickie, Space And Volume In Nasrid Architecture, The Legacy Of Muslim Spain, Edited By Salma al-Khadra’ al-Gayousi, 624.