Arthur Jeffery
Arthur Jeffery (born October 18, 1892 in Melbourne , Victoria (Australia) , † August 2, 1959 in South Milford , Nova Scotia , Canada ) was an important Semitist .
Life
Jeffery was Professor of Semitic Languages, first in Madras , then at the School of Oriental Studies (founded in 1921 as part of the American University in Cairo ) and, until his death in New York, at Union Theological Seminary , which is affiliated with Columbia University . He is the author of important works on the history of the Koran text . In his book The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an , he examines the origins of 318 foreign words of non-Arabic origin found in the Quran .
Works (selection)
- Essays
- The Mystic Letters of the Koran . In: The Muslim World , 13, 247-260 (1924).
- A Variant Text of the Fatiha . In: The Muslim World , 29 (1939), pp. 158-162.
- The Orthography of the Samarqand Codex . In: Journal of the American Oriental Society , Vol. 63 (1943), pp. 175-195 (with Isaac Mendelsohn ).
- Books
- The Qur'an as scripture . Books for Libraries, New York 1980, ISBN 0-8369-9263-6 (reprinted from London 1932 edition).
- Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an. The old codices . AMS PRess, New York 1975, ISBN 0-404-56282-5 (reprint of the Leiden 1937 edition).
- The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an . Brill, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15352-3 (reprint of the Baroda 1938 edition, digitized ).
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| SURNAME | Jeffery, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Semitist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1959 |
| Place of death | South Milford |