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Ramon Llull
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Ramon Llull

رامون لول

Notable figure 1232–1316 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 133; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 591 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Lullus, Raimundus (1232-1315)

From Spain; worked in France

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Founded the Miramar school of Arabic; urged chairs of Arabic

Biography

Born in Palma on Majorca, he spent nine years learning Arabic from a Muslim slave (1266–1275). In 1276 he persuaded the King of Aragon to found a school at Miramar for teaching Arabic, which he directed himself, and for the rest of his life he urged the teaching of Oriental languages in the universities of Europe, until the Council of Vienne (1311–1312) decreed chairs of Arabic, Hebrew and Chaldean wherever the papal Curia resided and at Paris, Oxford, Bologna and Salamanca.