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Catherine Pennacchio

كاترين بناكيو

Notable figure · Source: Catherine Pennacchio, New book: Les emprunts à l'hébreu et au judéo-araméen dans le Coran, IQSA (2014); Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 23, Ahmamou, pp. 126–157 · Second source: Review of Pennacchio, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 30 (2016), IFAO

Field: Philology and Semitics

Affiliation

Hebrew and Judeo-Aramaic loanwords in the Qur'an (2014)

Biography

A researcher whose book grew from a doctoral thesis at INALCO in Paris (2011). In it she revised Jeffery's list of foreign words in the Qur'an, examining 189 loans from Hebrew and Aramaic. She has taken part in the Glossarium Coranicum and in ETYMARAB, an etymological dictionary of Arabic.