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Edward Pococke the Younger

إدوارد بوكوك الابن

Notable figure 1648–1727 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 303 · Second source: VIAF, authority record: Pococke, Edward, 1648-1727

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor and Latin translator of Hayy ibn Yaqzan (1671)

Biography

The eldest son of Edward Pococke, first holder of the Laudian chair of Arabic at Oxford, he studied at Christ Church and learned Arabic from his father. He published Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan in Arabic with a Latin translation, Philosophus autodidactus (Oxford 1671), under his father's supervision and with his preface. He also began an edition and translation of ʿAbd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's account of Egypt, which remained incomplete.