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Michael George Carter

مايكل جورج كارتر

Notable figure b. 1939 · Source: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, publication page: Michael G. Carter, Sibawayhi (Makers of Islamic Civilization, 2004) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Carter, Michael George (1939-....)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Australia, the United States and Norway

Field: Arabic grammatical tradition

Affiliation

Grammarian; Sibawayhi (2004), Sibawayhi's Principles (2016)

Biography

He took his Oxford doctorate in 1968 with a thesis on Sibawayhi's grammatical analysis and taught Arabic at Sydney, New York University and the University of Oslo. He published an edited and translated Arabic commentary on the Ajurrumiyya as Arab Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1981), wrote Sibawayhi (2004), and then Sībawayhi's Principles: Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought (Atlanta, 2016). He is a King Faisal Prize laureate.