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Leonard Chappelow

ليونارد شابلو

Notable figure 1683–1768 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 472; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 716 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Chappelow, Leonard (1683-1768)

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Cambridge Arabic professor; Elementa linguae Arabicae (1730)

Biography

A graduate of St John's College, Cambridge, he succeeded Simon Ockley in the university's chair of Arabic (1720). He wrote the Elementa linguae Arabicae in Latin (London 1730) and translated into English al-Tughraʾi's Lamiyyat al-ʿAjam (Cambridge 1758) and six of al-Hariri's maqamas (1767).