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Pessah Shinar

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Notable figure 1914–2013 · 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. 44 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Shinar, Pessah (1914-2013)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Co-author with Ayalon of an Arabic–Hebrew dictionary (1947)

Biography

He taught at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With David Ayalon he compiled a large dictionary of modern Arabic glossed in Hebrew (Jerusalem, 1947), which the thesis lists among the bilingual dictionaries made by Europeans. Most of his later work was on Islam in the Maghrib.