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Thomas Chenery
Image: Leslie Ward (Vanity Fair, 4 October 1879), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Thomas Chenery

توماس تشينري

Notable figure 1826–1884 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 480; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 750 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Chenery, Thomas (1826-1884)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of al-Hariri's Maqamat into English (1867)

Biography

Born in Barbados, he studied at Cambridge, held the chair of Arabic at Oxford (1868–1877) and then became editor of The Times. He translated the first twenty-six maqamas of al-Hariri into English, with an introduction on al-Hariri and the maqama form and full notes on language and allusions (London, 1867). Francis Steingass completed the translation of the rest after his death.