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Duncan Forbes

دنكان فوربز

Notable figure 1798–1868 · 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. 39 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalogue record naming Forbes, Duncan (1798-1868)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Teacher; author of A Grammar of the Arabic Language (1863)

Biography

Born in Scotland, he taught Oriental languages at King's College London from 1837 to 1861. He wrote A Grammar of the Arabic Language (London 1863), 344 pages, for beginners preparing for service in India, as well as dictionaries and readers of Hindustani and Persian.