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Mohammad Shafi

محمد شفيع

Notable figure 1883–1963 · Source: Rauf Parekh, Dr Moulvi Muhammad Shafi: a walking encyclopaedia of Islam, Dawn (12 Mar 2018); al-Hafiz ʿAbd al-Qadir, on the universities and Arabic in Pakistan, al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), p. 19 · Second source: Open Library: Tatimmat Siwan al-hikma of ʿAli b. Zaid al-Baihaqi, ed. Mohammad Shafi (Lahore, 1935)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Head of Arabic at Punjab; edited al-Bayhaqi's Tatimma

Biography

Born in Kasur and died in Lahore, he studied Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew at Cambridge (1915–1919), then headed the Arabic department of the University of the Punjab until 1942. He edited the Arabic text of ʿAli b. Zayd al-Bayhaqi's Tatimmat Siwan al-hikma in the university's Oriental Publications (Lahore, 1935).