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Muhammad Idris ʿAbd al-Raʾuf al-Marbawi

محمد إدريس عبد الرؤوف المربوي

Notable figure 1896–1989 · Source: Abdul Salam Muhamad Shukri, "Al-Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Idris al-Marbawi's contribution to Islamic studies in the Malay World", in Monograph on selected Malay intellectuals (Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press, 2020), pp. 82–105 · Second source: NU Online, "Mengenal Kamus al-Marbawi"

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Qamus Idris al-Marbawi Arabic–Malay (1937)

Biography

A Malay born in Mecca to a family from Perak, he studied in Malay schools and pesantren and from 1924 at al-Azhar and in Mecca. There he compiled the Qamus Idris al-Marbawi, an Arabic–Malay dictionary published in 1937 in two volumes with some 1,200 illustrations of the words; reprinted many times, it served generations of Arabic students across the Malay world.