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Ernest N. McCarus

أرنست مكاريوس

Notable figure 1922–2022 · 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, p. 43 · Second source: The University Record, University of Michigan, obituary (June 2022): Ernest N. McCarus, 10 Sep. 1922 – 5 April 2022

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Teacher of Arabic; co-author of a standard US textbook

Biography

Born in Charleston, West Virginia, he taught Arabic at the University of Michigan. He co-edited the Contemporary Arabic Readers (Ann Arbor 1962–1964) and, with Peter Abboud, Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (1968), and founded al-ʿArabiyya, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic.