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Alfred Guillaume

ألفرد غيوم

Notable figure 1888–1965 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 543; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 473 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Guillaume, Alfred (1888-1965)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Lebanon and the United States

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic; translated Ibn Ishaq's Sira (1955)

Biography

A graduate of Oxford, he taught Hebrew and Oriental languages in London and Durham, then was professor of Arabic and head of the Near and Middle East department at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1947–1955), and visiting professor of Arabic in Beirut and Princeton. He translated Ibn Ishaq's Sira into English (1955), edited al-Shahrastani's Nihayat al-iqdam (Oxford, 1934) and wrote a comparative study of Hebrew and Arabic lexicography.