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Arthur Stanley Tritton

آرثر ستانلي تريتون

Notable figure 1881–1973 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 538; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 349 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Tritton, Arthur Stanley (1881-1973)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Lebanon and India

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

SOAS professor of Arabic; Teach Yourself Arabic (1943)

Biography

He studied at Oxford and Göttingen and taught at the Friends' School in Brummana, Lebanon. He became assistant to the professor of Arabic at Edinburgh (1911) and Glasgow (1919), professor at Aligarh (1921), and then taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London until 1947. He wrote the textbook Teach Yourself Arabic, and papers on the place of the letter nun in Semitic word forms (1933–1935) and on popular tradition in Classical Arabic (1949).