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Reynold A. Nicholson

رينولد نيكلسون

Notable figure 1868–1945 · 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. 86, 89 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116994290): Nicholson, Reynold A., 1868–1945

Field: Literature

Affiliation

Author of A Literary History of the Arabs (1907)

Biography

Born in Yorkshire, he was professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He wrote A Literary History of the Arabs (London 1907), edited Ibn ʿArabi's Tarjuman al-ashwaq with an English translation (London 1911), and published al-Maʿarri's Risalat al-ghufran in translation in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1900–1902).

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

“Although the language of the pagan Bedouins did not survive intact—or survived, at any rate, only in the mouths of pedants and poets—it became, in a modified form, the universal medium of expression among the upper class…” The saying and its source →

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Reynold A. Nicholson

Biography

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