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Published by Al-Jawa'ib, Istanbul, 1881
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Arabic text, 361 pp., [3 adverts], preliminary pages browned, partly unopened, small marginal cut to title page repaired without loss, light spotting, mainly to end leaves, otherwise copy in good condition, 1299 H / 1881. Al-Shidyaq a llinguist, journalist and translator, he was nevertheless one of the pioneers of the modern Arab literary awakening, and one of a long of Lebanese and Syrian scholars ?( J. A. Haywood, Arabic Lexicography, p. 90) who contributed to Arab renaissance. Chidyaq published several works on Arabic language, including a dictionary of English and Arabic published in London in 1891. The first volume of this work covers his impression and observation about Malta, while the second is considered as a Arabic literary masterpiece from the 19th century. Chidyaq describes in ' Kashf Al-Mukhabba' his journey through England and France in the mid of the 19th century. #24754.