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Edward William Lane
Image: Richard J. Lane, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Edward William Lane

إدوارد وليم لين

Notable figure 1801–1876 · 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. 32, 39 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lane, Edward William (1801-1876)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Arabic-English Lexicon

Biography

Born in Hereford, he spent years in Cairo gathering his material. He compiled the Arabic-English Lexicon (London 1863–1893) from the great Arabic dictionaries; his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole completed the last parts after his death. He also translated The Thousand and One Nights (1838–1841).

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