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William Bedwell

وليم بدويل

Notable figure 1561–1632 · 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, p. 39 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bedwell, William (1562?-1632)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; compiled a seven-volume Arabic lexicon

Biography

Born in Essex, he was a pioneer of Arabic studies in England. He compiled a seven-volume Arabic lexicon that he never published, which Castell later drew on, and he published The Arabian Trudgman, a glossary of Arabic names and titles (London 1615).

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»

“But, someone will say, who does not know that to the common people the name of the Arabs sounds, is heard as, and means nothing but barbarous, rude and uncultivated? There is some truth in this, but I openly deny that it…” The saying and its source →
“There is no language, my reader (I except Greek and Latin), that contains more monuments of solid learning and of the whole circle of the sciences. In theology it has many weighty writers. In medicine, good God, how grea…” The saying and its source →
“Indeed, from the furthest shores of the extreme West, that is, from the Fortunate Isles (which the Arabs call al-Khālidāt), as far as the islands of the Moluccas in the extreme East, it is certain that Islam holds sway. …” The saying and its source →

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William Bedwell

Biography

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»