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Charles Ambrose Storey

تشارلز أمبروز ستوري

Notable figure 1888–1967 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 542; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 674 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Storey, Charles Ambrose (1888-1967)

From the United Kingdom; worked in India

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic, Cambridge; edited al-Fakhir (1915)

Biography

Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he taught Arabic at Aligarh in India, worked at the India Office Library in London (1919–1933), and held the Sir Thomas Adams's Chair of Arabic at Cambridge (1933–1947). He edited al-Mufaddal ibn Salama's al-Fakhir with indexes of rhymes, poets, proverbs and words (Leiden, 1915), and catalogued the Arabic manuscripts of the India Office Library.