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Aryeh Levin

أرييه ليفين

Notable figure 1937–2023 · Source: National Library of Israel, authority record: Levin, Aryeh, 1937-2023 · Second source: Review of Aryeh Levin, Arabic Linguistic Thought and Dialectology (Jerusalem, 1998), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Field: Grammar and dialects

Affiliation

Grammarian; A Grammar of the Arabic Dialect of Jerusalem

Biography

Professor of Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he worked on early Arabic grammatical thought and its terminology and on the modern dialects. He wrote A Grammar of the Arabic Dialect of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 2nd ed. 1995), and his studies, including close work on Sibawayhi's terminology in the Kitab, were collected in Arabic Linguistic Thought and Dialectology (Jerusalem, 1998).