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Abd al-Aziz al-Maymani al-Rajkoti

عبد العزيز الميمني الراجكوتي

Notable figure 1888–1978 · Source: University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries, catalogue record: Simt al-laʾali, ed. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Maymani · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Maymanī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al- (1888-1978), former head of the Department of Arabic, Aligarh Muslim University

Field: Text editions

Affiliation

Editor of al-Bakri's Simt al-laʾali (1936)

Biography

From Rajkot in India, he studied Arabic in its madrasas and went on to teach it, heading the Department of Arabic at Aligarh Muslim University; he was elected to the Arab Academy of Damascus. He wrote Abu al-ʿAla wa-ma ilayhi (Cairo, 1925) and edited Abu ʿUbayd al-Bakri's Simt al-laʾali fi sharh Amali al-Qali (Cairo, 1936), which made him a standard reference for editors of literary and philological texts.