Egypt

Arthur Jeffery Notable figure

1892–1959

Philology and Semitics

Author of The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an (1938)

From Australia; worked in India, Egypt and the United States

Arthur John Arberry Notable figure

1905–1969

Literature and poetry

Cambridge professor of Arabic; Modern Arabic Poetry (1950)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Adolf Grohmann Notable figure

1887–1977

Text editing

Editor of the Arabic papyri in the Egyptian Library

From Austria; worked in Czechia and Egypt

Arthur Schaade Notable figure

1883–1952

Phonetics

Phonetician; author of Sibawaihi's Lautlehre (1911)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Arthur Guy Notable figure

1874–1945

Text editing

Editor of Ibn Qutayba's Kitab al-Ashriba (1907)

From France; worked in Syria, Libya, Tanzania, Palestine, Türkiye and Egypt

Alfred von Kremer Notable figure

1828–1889

Literature and poetry

Translator of Abu Nuwas; author of Arabic lexicon addenda

From Austria; worked in Egypt and Lebanon

André du Ryer Notable figure

17th century

Qur'an translation

First complete French version of the Qur'an (1647)

From France; worked in Egypt

Eugenio Griffini Notable figure

1878–1925

Text editing

Editor of al-Akhtal (1907); Tripoli Arabic glossary

From Italy; worked in Egypt and Libya

Umberto Rizzitano Notable figure

1913–1980

Literature and poetry

Professor of Arabic, Palermo; studied Ibn Makki's Tathqif

From Italy; worked in Egypt

Étienne Combe Notable figure

1881–1962

Arabic epigraphy

Co-editor, Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe

From Switzerland; worked in Egypt

Edward Abbott Van Dyck Notable figure

1846–1938

Literature and bibliography

Bibliographer; author of Iktifaʾ al-qanuʿ (1896)

From the United States; worked in Lebanon and Egypt

Israel Wolfensohn (Ben-Zeev) Notable figure

1899–1980

Philology and Semitics

Author of Tarikh al-lughat al-samiyya in Arabic (1930)

From Palestine; worked in Egypt

Émile Galtier Notable figure

1864–1908

Text editing

Translator of Futuh al-Bahnasa; Egyptian dialect tales

From France; worked in Algeria and Egypt

Enno Littmann Notable figure

1875–1958

Phonetics and dialects

Translator of the Thousand and One Nights; dialectologist

From Germany; worked in Egypt and the United States

Paul Kahle Notable figure

1875–1964

Text editing

Editor of Arabic shadow plays: Der Leuchtturm (1930)

From Germany; worked in Egypt and the United Kingdom

Paul Kraus Notable figure

1904–1944

Text editing

Editor of al-Jahiz's epistles (1943); historian of science

From Czechia; worked in Germany, France and Egypt

Bayard Dodge Notable figure

1888–1972

Translation

Translated Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist into English (1970)

From the United States; worked in Lebanon and Egypt

Bernhard Moritz Notable figure

1859–1939

Arabic script

Author of Arabic Palaeography (Cairo)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Pedro Martínez Montávez Notable figure

1933–2023

Literature and poetry

Translator of modern Arabic poetry and fiction into Spanish

From Spain; worked in Egypt

Jacques Jomier Notable figure

1914–2008

Phonetics and dialects

Manual of Egyptian Arabic (1964); a Cairo-dialect lexicon

From France; worked in Egypt

Jean-Joseph Marcel Notable figure

1776–1854

Lexicography

Lexicographer; French-Arabic vocabulary of dialects (1837)

From France; worked in Egypt

Jean-Claude Vadet Notable figure

b. 1931

Literature and poetry

Author of L'esprit courtois en Orient (1968)

From France; worked in Egypt

Georges Salmon Notable figure

1876–1906

Text editing

Translated al-Maʿarri; edited al-Khatib on Baghdad

From France; worked in Egypt and Morocco

Jules Blin Notable figure

1853–1891

Teaching Arabic

Author of Éléments de grammaire arabe (Beirut, 1886)

From France; worked in Lebanon and Egypt

Desmond Stewart Notable figure

1924–1981

Literature and poetry

Translator of al-Sharqawi's al-Ard into English (1962)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt

Denys Johnson-Davies Notable figure

1922–2017

Translation

Translator; Modern Arabic Short Stories (1967)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Rudolf E. de Jong Notable figure

1958–2024

Phonetics and dialects

Dialectologist; Bedouin dialects of Sinai (2000, 2011)

From the Netherlands; worked in Egypt

Serafín Fanjul Notable figure

b. 1945

Literature and poetry

Professor of Arabic literature, Madrid; al-Jahiz translator

From Spain; worked in Egypt

Charles Vial Notable figure

b. 1928

Literature

Translator of al-Jahiz; glossary of written Egyptian

From France; worked in Egypt

Charles Kuentz Notable figure

1895–1978

Text editing

Began an edition of al-Shaybani's Kitab al-Jim

From France; worked in Egypt

Gaston Wiet Notable figure

1887–1971

Literature and poetry

Taught Arabic literature in Cairo; translated modern writers

From France; worked in Egypt

François-Alphonse Belin Notable figure

1817–1877

Lexicography

Notes on Marcel's dictionary; colloquial Arabic texts

From France; worked in Türkiye, Egypt and Greece

Friedrich Kern Notable figure

1874–1921

Teaching Arabic

Teacher of Arabic; scholar of modern Egyptian literature

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Frederik (Fred) Leemhuis Notable figure

1942–2021

Grammar and morphology

Grammarian; The D and H Stems in Koranic Arabic (1977)

From the Netherlands; worked in Egypt

Volkhard Windfuhr Notable figure

1937–2020

Literary translation

Lecturer on Arabic literature; translator of Arabic poems

From Germany; worked in Egypt and Lebanon

Federico Arbós Ayuso Notable figure

1946–2024

Literature and poetry

Translator of al-Bayati and Adonis into Spanish

From Spain; worked in Egypt and Morocco

Wilhelm Spitta Notable figure

1853–1883

Phonetics and dialects

Author of the first grammar of Egyptian Arabic (1880)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Karl Vollers Notable figure

1857–1909

Phonetics and dialects

Author of Volkssprache und Schriftsprache (1906)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Christiane Lamourette Notable figure

b. 1943

Literature and poetry

Literary scholar of Taha Husayn and Ibn Zaydun

From France; worked in Tunisia, Syria and Egypt

Louis Massignon Notable figure

1883–1962

Terminology

Scholar of Arabic technical vocabulary; Essai (1922)

From France; worked in Egypt

Martin Hinds Notable figure

1941–1988

Lexicography

Lexicographer; Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic (1986)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Marsden Jones Notable figure

1920–1992

Text editing

Editor of al-Waqidi; bibliographer of Egyptian writers

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt and the United States

Max Meyerhof Notable figure

1874–1945

Text editing

Editor of Maimonides' glossary of drug names (1940)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Na Zhong Notable figure

1909–2008

Teaching Arabic

Founder of the Arabic major at Beijing Foreign Studies Univ.

From China; worked in Egypt

Nicolas Perron Notable figure

1798–1876

Translation

Physician and translator; Femmes arabes (1858)

From France; worked in Egypt and Algeria

Hippolyte Dulac Notable figure

Phonetics and dialects

Scholar of Upper-Egyptian and Cairene Arabic

From France; worked in Egypt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Notable figure

1840–1922

Literary translation

Versified The Seven Golden Odes with Lady Anne Blunt (1903)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Egypt

Jan Brugman Notable figure

1923–2004

Literature

Leiden professor of Arabic; modern Egyptian literature

From the Netherlands; worked in Egypt

Joseph Schacht Notable figure

1902–1969

Text editing

Editor of al-Khassaf's Kitab al-hiyal (1923)

From Germany; worked in Egypt, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Notable figure

1784–1817

Proverbs and dialect

Compiler of Arabic Proverbs, with translation (1830)

From Switzerland; worked in the United Kingdom and Egypt