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Aryeh Levin (1937‒2023)
Born in 1937 in Ramat Gan, a city in central Israel, the late Prof. Aryeh Levin was one of the leading figures in the research of Arabic grammarians in general and Sībawayhi in particular. His notable contributions include numerous articles about Sībawayh’s Kitāb and later grammarians’ treatises. Aryeh was a lively and beloved friend in the…
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Solomon I. Sara (1930‒2016)
Born in 1930 in Mangesh, a small Chaldean village in Iraq, late Prof. Solomon I. Sara (Šlīmōn Īšō Ṣārā) traversed numerous physical, cultural, and religious boundaries on his path to becoming a Jesuit priest in the US. Renowned as a specialist in classical Arabic phonetics and phonology, his notable contribution includes his 2007 book on…
Foundations of Arab Linguistics
A group of scholars passionate about the history of Arab linguistics