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Zuhoor Ahmad Azhar

ظهور أحمد أظهر

Notable figure b. 1938 · Source: Nasreen Akhter and Najam Bano, «Hayat al-Duktur Zuhur Ahmad Azhar wa-khidmatuhu li-l-lugha al-ʿarabiyya», al-Ulum al-Arabia 6 (2018), pp. 85–; al-Hafiz ʿAbd al-Qadir, al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), pp. 19–21, and p. 161 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Aẓhar, Ẓuhūr Aḥmad

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Qurt ʿala al-Kamil; Arabic professor, Lahore

Biography

He took his doctorate in Arabic at the University of the Punjab (1967) under ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Maymani, and served there as lecturer (1963), professor (1984) and dean of the Oriental College, Lahore. He edited Kitab al-Qurt ʿala al-Kamil of al-Waqashi and al-Batalyawsi and other manuscripts, and supervised about a hundred doctoral theses.