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Jan Ali

جان علي

Notable figure 19th century · 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. ١٣٨ · Second source: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: al-Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrīah, or, The adventures of Aboo Zyde of Surooj (Calcutta, 1809–1814), contributor: Jān ʿAlī, maulavī, compiler and editor

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Maulavi; edited al-Hariri at Calcutta, with a glossary

Biography

A maulavi working on the Fort William College printing at Calcutta. With Maulavi Allah Dad he prepared the complete edition of the Maqamat of al-Hariri (1809–1814), collated against eight copies, with an English preface by Matthew Lumsden. He also made its supplement, an Arabic–Persian dictionary of its terms. According to Fück, he published al-Taftazani's Mukhtasar al-maʿani in 1813 under Lumsden's supervision.