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 a professor of Semitic languages ​​only in Madras, then in Cairo until his death in New York at Union Theological Seminary, which is connected to Columbia University. He is the author of important works on the history of the Qur'anic text.

Works (selection)

  • The Mystic Letters of the Koran. In: The Muslim World, Vol 13 (1924 ), pp. 247-260.
  • A Variant Text of the Fatiha. In: The Muslim World, Vol 29 (1939 ), pp. 158-162.
  • The Orthography of the Samarqand Codex. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol 63 (1943 ), pp. 175-195 (together with Isaac Mendelsohn ).
  • The Qur'an as scripture. Books for Libraries, New York 1980, ISBN 0-8369-9263-6 ( Nachdr d ed London 1932).
  • The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'an. Brill, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15352-3 ( Nachdr d ed Baroda 1938).
  • Semitist
  • Islamic scholar
  • Born in 1892
  • Died in 1959
  • Man
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