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Charles James Lyall

شارلس جيمس لايل

Notable figure 1845–1920 · 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. 85, 123 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lyall, Charles James (1845-1920)

From the United Kingdom; worked in India

Field: Poetry and text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Mufaddaliyat (Oxford 1918–1924)

Biography

Born in London, he served in India. He published Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry (1885), edited al-Tibrizi's commentary on the Ten Odes (Calcutta 1894), and edited the Mufaddaliyat with Ibn al-Anbari's commentary, a translation and notes (Oxford 1918–1924).

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