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Simon Anthony Hopkins

سايمون أنتوني هوبكنز

Notable figure b. 1950 · Source: Review of Simon Hopkins, Studies in the Grammar of Early Arabic (London Oriental Series 37, 1984), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hopkins, Simon Anthony (1950-....), Hebrew University of Jerusalem

From the United Kingdom; worked in Palestine

Field: History of Arabic

Affiliation

Grammarian; Grammar of Early Arabic from Papyri (1984)

Biography

A linguist of the Semitic languages and professor in the Department of Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Studies in the Grammar of Early Arabic Based upon Papyri Datable to before 300 A.H./912 A.D. (Oxford, 1984), originally his London doctoral thesis, is a systematic description of the language of the earliest Arabic papyri. He has also written on Judaeo-Arabic.