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Antonio Almagro Cárdenas

أنطونيو ألماغرو كارديناس

Notable figure d. 1919 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 585; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 155 · Second source: David Loyola López, «Almagro Cárdenas, Antonio. Granada, 27-VIII-1865 – Granada, ca. XII-1919», in B. Sánchez Hita and M. Cantos Casenave (eds.), Galería de periodistas de Andalucía en los siglos XVIII y XIX (Peter Lang, 2024), pp. 35–38 (Universidad de Cádiz research record)

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic at Granada; Moroccan Arabic grammar

Biography

Born in Granada, he studied there under Simonet, held the chair of Hebrew at Salamanca and then taught Oriental languages at the University of Granada. In 1882 he wrote a grammar and a lexicon of colloquial Moroccan Arabic; he also wrote on the Cordoban zajal poet Ibn Quzman, studied the Arabic inscriptions of Granada (1879), and catalogued the Arabic manuscripts of its university.