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Wheeler M. Thackston

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Notable figure b. 1944 · Source: Goodreads, book record: Wheeler M. Thackston, An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic (1994) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Thackston, Wheeler McIntosh (1944-....), professor of Persian, Harvard University

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic (1994)

Biography

He taught Near Eastern languages at Harvard University and is best known for Persian. For students he wrote An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic (1994), a graded textbook of classical grammar that leads the learner through its lessons to reading Qurʾānic and classical texts.