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Alfred Felix Landon Beeston

ألفريد فيلكس لاندون بيستون

Notable figure 1911–1995 · Source: al-bab.com, "Alfred Felix Landon Beeston (1911-1995)" · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Beeston, Alfred Felix Landon (1911-1995), professor of Arabic at Oxford

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic; The Arabic Language Today (1970)

Biography

He held the Laudian Chair of Arabic at Oxford until he retired in 1979. He wrote Written Arabic: An Approach to the Basic Structures (Cambridge, 1968) and The Arabic Language Today (London, 1970), a concise and exact account of the structure of modern written Arabic, edited and translated al-Jahiz's epistle on singing-girls (1980), and wrote on the inscriptions and language of ancient South Arabia.