Voice of Arabic Network
Search
David Lopes
Image: Unknown (family photograph), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

David Lopes

دافيد لوبس

Notable figure 1867–1942 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 315; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 502 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lopes, David (1867-1942)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic in Lisbon; Aljamiado texts (1897)

Biography

He studied Arabic at the École des langues orientales vivantes in Paris, then returned to Portugal (1892) to teach it in Lisbon, holding the chair of Arabic in the Faculty of Letters until 1937. He published Portuguese Aljamiado texts, Portuguese written in Arabic script in Morocco (Lisbon, 1897), edited and translated al-Maʿbari's Tuhfat al-mujahidin (1898), and studied the Arabic place names of Portugal. He was a member of the Arab Academy of Damascus.