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José María Fórneas Besteiro

خوسيه ماريّا فورنياس بستيرو

Notable figure 1926–2003 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 616; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 494 · Second source: «In memoriam José Mª Fórneas Besteiro (1926-2003)», Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos, Sección Árabe-Islam 52 (2003), pp. 275-286 (University of Granada)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic and colloquial Arabic at Granada

Biography

Born in San Paio de Arcos, Lugo, he graduated in Semitic (1952) and Romance philology (1953) at Madrid, and held study grants in Morocco (1950–1951) and Cairo (1955–1957). He taught Arabic at the School of Commerce in Cádiz, in Ceuta and in Madrid, and from 1974 held the chair of Arabic and colloquial Arabic at Granada. He wrote on Arabisms in Spanish, on dialects and on phonetics, and took his doctorate (1970) with a study of the Fahrasa of Ibn ʿAtiyya of Granada.