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Kees Versteegh

كيس فرستيخ

Notable figure b. 1947 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 182, 331 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 135665353): Versteegh, Kees, born 1947

Field: Grammar and linguistics

Affiliation

Linguist; author of The Arabic Language (Edinburgh 1997)

Biography

Professor of Arabic at Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He wrote Greek Elements in Arabic Linguistic Thinking (Leiden 1977), Arabic Grammar and Qurʾanic Exegesis in Early Islam (Leiden 1993) and The Arabic Language (Edinburgh 1997), and was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Leiden 2006–2009).