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Joseph White
Image: Joseph Thomson, after Matthew William Peters (line engraving, 1796); National Portrait Gallery, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Joseph White

جوزيف وايت

Notable figure 1745–1814 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 474; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1108 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: White, Joseph (1745-1814)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford (1775–1814)

Biography

A graduate of Oxford, he held its chair of Arabic from 1775 until his death and the chair of Hebrew from 1804. He published in Arabic the 162nd night of the Thousand and One Nights (Oxford, 1800) and ʿAbd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's al-Ifada wa-l-iʿtibar.