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Mortimer Sloper Howell

مورتيمر سلوبر هاول

Notable figure 1841–1925 · 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. 309 · Second source: C. E. Buckland, Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906), s.v. Howell, Mortimer Sloper (transcribed on en.wikisource.org)

From the United Kingdom; worked in India

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

A Grammar of the Classical Arabic Language (1880–1911)

Biography

Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he entered the Indian Civil Service in 1862 and retired in 1896 as Judicial Commissioner of Oudh. He compiled A Grammar of the Classical Arabic Language in four parts (Allahabad 1880–1911), translated and gathered from the Arab grammarians on the plan of al-Zamakhshari's Mufassal: noun, verb, particle and common processes, drawing heavily on Radi al-Din al-Astarabadi's two commentaries.