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Arthur Jeffery

آرثر جفري

Notable figure 1892–1959 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1013; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 417 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Jeffery, Arthur (1892-1959)

From Australia; worked in India, Egypt and the United States

Field: Philology and Semitics

Affiliation

Author of The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an (1938)

Biography

Born in Melbourne, he taught in Madras, then at the American University in Cairo, and from 1938 at Columbia University in New York until his death. He edited Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani's Kitab al-Masahif with an English introduction (Leiden 1937) and wrote many studies of the Qur'anic readings, among them one on Ibn Khalawayh's Mukhtasar fi shawadhdh al-qiraʾat (1938). His Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an (Baroda 1938) traces the origins of the Qur'an's words of non-Arabic origin.