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John James Stewart Perowne
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John James Stewart Perowne

جون جيمس ستيوارت بيرون

Notable figure 1823–1904 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 479; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 324 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Perowne, John James Stewart (1823-1904)

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Translator of the Ajurrumiyya into English (1852)

Biography

He studied at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College (1849–1864); most of his work was on Hebrew and its commentary. In 1852 he published Ibn Ajurrum's grammar, the Ajurrumiyya, with the Arabic text and an English translation (Cambridge: Macmillan).