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Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
Image: François-Séraphin Delpech / After Antoine Maurin, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

سلفستر دي ساسي

Notable figure 1758–1838 · 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. 27, 29 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine-Isaac (1758-1838)

Field: Grammar and teaching

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of the Grammaire arabe (Paris 1810)

Biography

Born in Paris, he was the first professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental Languages, and students came to him from across Europe. He wrote the Chrestomathie arabe (1806) and the Grammaire arabe (1810), edited al-Hariri's Maqamat with an Arabic commentary (1822), compiled the Anthologie grammaticale arabe (1829), and edited Ibn Malik's Alfiyya with a commentary (1833).

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