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Samuel Clarke

صموئيل كلارك

Notable figure 1624–1669 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 894 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Clarke, Samuel (1624-1669)

Field: Prosody

Affiliation

Author of a Latin treatise on Arabic prosody (1661)

Biography

A graduate of Merton College, Oxford, he became the first superintendent (architypographus) of the university press in 1649. He helped with the Polyglot Bible (1657) and wrote a treatise on Arabic prosody, Scientia metrica et rhythmica (Oxford, 1661). He left in the Bodleian a copy of Abu al-Fida's geography and a dictionary of places with Arabic names.