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Werner Diem

فرنر ديم

Notable figure b. 1944 · 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. 30, 41 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 132297418): Diem, Werner, born 25 Jan. 1944, professor of Islamic studies and Semitic languages

Field: Lexicography and dialects

Affiliation

Philologist; author of a study of Abu ʿAmr's Kitab al-Jim

Biography

Professor of Islamic studies and Semitic languages at the University of Cologne. He studied Abu ʿAmr al-Shaybani's Kitab al-Jim (Munich 1968; Arabic translation by Hasan Muhammad al-Shammaʿ, 1980), edited its chapter of kaf (1969), and wrote Hochsprache und Dialekt im Arabischen (Wiesbaden 1974).