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David Samuel Margoliouth
Image: Harriet Halhed (attrib, d. 1933); Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

David Samuel Margoliouth

ديفيد صموئيل مرجليوث

Notable figure 1858–1940 · 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. 2, pp. 473, 604, 615 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116770546): Margoliouth, David Samuel, born 17 Oct. 1858 in London, died 22 March 1940

Field: Literature and text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Yaqut's Muʿjam al-udabaʾ (1907–1927)

Biography

Born in London, he was professor of Arabic at Oxford. He edited The Letters of Abu l-ʿAlaʾ of Maʿarrat al-Nuʿman with an English translation (Oxford 1898) and Yaqut's Irshad al-arib, the Muʿjam al-udabaʾ, in seven volumes (1907–1927).

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