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Darío Cabanelas Rodríguez

داريو كابانيلاس رودريغيث

Notable figure 1916–1992 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 615; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 840 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Cabanelas Rodríguez, Darío (1916-1992), born and died Trasalba (Spain)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic at Granada; study of Ibn Sida (1966)

Biography

Born in Trasalba near Ourense, he studied Semitic languages at Madrid, became professor of Arabic at Granada (1954), dean of its Faculty of Letters (1965–1968) and director of the Escuela de Estudios Árabes in Granada (1972). He wrote on Ibn Sida of Murcia as the greatest lexicographer of al-Andalus (Granada 1966), on the first thesaurus of the Muslim West (1961) and on Ibn Quzman (1973).