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Edward Henry Palmer
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Edward Henry Palmer

إدوارد هنري بالمر

Notable figure 1840–1882 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 482; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 210 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Palmer, Edward Henry (1840-1882)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Cambridge professor of Arabic; translator of Baha Zuhayr

Biography

Born in Cambridge, he learned Arabic and Persian young, then studied at the university, catalogued its Oriental manuscripts, and became its professor of Arabic in 1871. He wrote verse in Arabic and turned English poems into it, published A Grammar of the Arabic Language (1874), and edited and translated into English verse the poems of Baha al-Din Zuhayr (1876–1877).