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Miguel Asín Palacios
Image: Unknown author (La Ilustración Española y Americana, 30 January 1919), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Miguel Asín Palacios

ميغيل آسين بلاثيوس

Notable figure 1871–1944 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 596; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, pp. 136-137 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Asín Palacios, Miguel (1871-1944)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Arabic chair at Madrid; Andalusi glossaries and place names

Biography

Born in Zaragoza, he learned Arabic under Ribera (1891), took his doctorate at Madrid (1896), succeeded Codera in the Arabic chair there (1903), and edited the journal al-Andalus. His language work includes a glossary of plant names recorded by an anonymous Andalusi botanist of the 11th–12th centuries (Madrid, 1943), a study of Spanish place names of Arabic origin (Madrid, 1944), and an article on the Kitab al-ʿAyn (1912).