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António Baptista Abrantes

أنطونيو باتيستا أبرانتيش

Notable figure 18th century · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 618; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 196 · Second source: Firenze University Press, bibliography: Abrantes, António Baptista. 1774. Instituições da língua arábica, Fr. António Baptista. Lisboa: Regia Off. Typografica

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Grammarian; first Arabic grammar in Portuguese (1774)

Biography

He wrote the Instituições da língua arábica, the first grammar of Arabic in Portuguese, printed in Lisbon by the Régia Oficina Tipográfica in 1774 in some 270 pages. He held the chair of Arabic in Lisbon until João de Sousa succeeded him in it, around 1794.