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Michele Amari
Image: Francesco Giovanni Cantagalli (wood engraving, L'illustrazione popolare, Milan 1889), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Michele Amari

ميكيلي أماري

Notable figure 1806–1889 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 309 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (GND 116297034): Amari, Michele (1806–1889)

From Italy; worked in France

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Biblioteca arabo-sicula (1857)

Biography

Born in Palermo, he learned Arabic in Paris and later taught it in Florence and Pisa. He collected the Arabic texts on Sicily from geographers, historians and men of letters and published them as the Biblioteca arabo-sicula (Leipzig 1857) with its supplements, along with Sicilian Arabic documents. He helped Dozy with the Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes: he obtained the loan of the unique al-Mustaʿini manuscript from Naples and sent him abstracts of Sicilian Arabic licences, and his editions are among the Supplément's sources.