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Frederik (Fred) Leemhuis

فريدريك ليمهاوس

Notable figure 1942–2021 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 988 · Second source: Leiden University, NVIC: In memoriam Prof. em. Fred Leemhuis (December 2021)

From the Netherlands; worked in Egypt

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Grammarian; The D and H Stems in Koranic Arabic (1977)

Biography

He studied Semitic languages at Groningen and taught Arabic there, and directed the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo. He wrote on Sibawayh (1973) and on modern Arabic dialects (1973–1974), and published The D and H Stems in Koranic Arabic (Leiden, 1977), on the fa''ala and af'ala verb forms in the language of the Qur'an.