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ʿAbd al-Rahim ibn ʿAbd al-Karim Safipuri

عبد الرحيم بن عبد الكريم الصفيبوري

Notable figure d. 1851 · 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. ١٣٩ · Second source: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: al-Sabʿ al-Muʿallaqāt (Calcutta, 1823), ed. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm Ṣafīpūrī; Muntahá al-arab (Calcutta, [1836–1841]), record 9976527973503681

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Muntaha al-arab, Arabic–Persian lexicon; edited Muʿallaqat

Biography

A scholar of India, named after Safipur. At Calcutta in 1823 he issued the seven Muʿallaqat with a commentary based on al-Zawzani's, under Matthew Lumsden's supervision. He compiled Muntaha al-arab, an Arabic–Persian dictionary in four volumes printed at Calcutta (1836–1841), drawn from al-Firuzabadi's Qamus, al-Jawhari's Sihah and other works. It was reprinted at Lahore (1871) and turned into Hindustani by Sadasukh Lal (1877).