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Joseph Dacre Carlyle

جوزيف دكر كارلايل

Notable figure 1759–1804 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 481; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 845 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Carlyle, Joseph Dacre (1759-1804)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Author of Specimens of Arabian Poetry (1796)

Biography

Born in Carlisle, he studied at Cambridge, where he learned Arabic from David Zamio of Baghdad, and became professor of Arabic there (1795). He published part of Ibn Taghribirdi's Mawrid al-latafa with a Latin translation (Cambridge, 1792) and compiled Specimens of Arabian Poetry from the earliest times to the end of the Caliphate (Cambridge, 1796), with pieces by al-Maʿarri and notes on the poets. He went with Lord Elgin's embassy to Constantinople (1799).