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Thomas Hyde
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Thomas Hyde

توماس هايد

Notable figure 1636–1703 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. ٩١ · Second source: Klaus Karttunen, Persons of Indian Studies: Hyde, Thomas (citing P. J. Marshall in the Oxford DNB, and A. V. Williams in Encyclopaedia Iranica 12/6)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Succeeded Pococke in Oxford's Arabic chair (1691)

Biography

Born at Billingsley in Shropshire, he learned Arabic at Cambridge under Wheelock at sixteen and assisted Walton on the London Polyglot. He was Bodley's Librarian at Oxford from 1665 to 1701 and issued the catalogue of its printed books (1674). He succeeded Edward Pococke in the Laudian chair of Arabic in 1691, adding the Regius chair of Hebrew in 1697.