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Pierre Cachia

بيير كاكيا

Notable figure 1921–2017 · 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. 8, 12, 14, 40 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 1024873986): Cachia, Pierre, born 30 April 1921 in Egypt, died 1 April 2017

From Malta; worked in the United Kingdom and the United States

Field: Lexicography and literature

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of a dictionary of grammatical terms

Biography

Born in Faiyum in Egypt to a Maltese family, he taught at Edinburgh and then Columbia. He compiled al-ʿArif, a dictionary of Arabic grammatical terms, Arabic-English and English-Arabic (Beirut and London 1973), and wrote Taha Husayn: His Place in the Egyptian Literary Renaissance (London 1956).