PAREJA Casañas, Félix Maria. Barcelona 15.12.1890 — Alcalá de Henares 26.8.1983. S.J. Padre. Spanish Islamic Scholar. Joined S.J. in 1915. Noviciate in Valenci. Studied in Zaragoza, Barcelona and Cambridge. Ph.D. 1935 Madrid (diss. on al-Andalus). In 1935-39 taught Arabic, Islamology and Latin at Bombay University. In 1939-54 taught Missiology and Islamology at Università Gregoriana in Rome. In 1956-83 Librarian of Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, in 1958-66 taught Islamology at Madrid. Hon. Ph.D. Pontifical University, hon. D.D. Saint Beonus (U.K.).
Publications: Much on Arabic and Islam.
– “La fase arabe del gioco degli scachi”, Oriente Moderno 33:10, 1953, 1-23.
– Articles and reviews occasionally touching Indian matters.
Sources: J.M. Fórneas, Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos 32-33, 1980-83, 321-327; www.athenaica.com/autor/pareja-felix-maria/; photo in ZDMG 135, 1985; Spanish and Italian Wikipedia briefly.