Carlo Alfonso Nallino

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Egyptian University
, 1911. Nallino is on the left.

Carlo Alfonso Nallino (18 February 1872 – 25 July 1938) was an Italian orientalist.

Biography

Nallino was born in

Arab astronomer al-Battānī
.

With his publication of a book on Egyptian Arab dialect in 1900

Taha Husayn
, who would go on to become Minister of the Education.

Letter by Nallino (1932)

Nallino eventually returned to Italy to take up the position of ordinary professor at the

Arabic Peninsula, visiting the newly formed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but he died shortly afterwards in Rome from a cardiac arrest after publishing only the first volumes of the studies about his trip[3],[4]

Publications

  • Revision of Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia by Michele Amari (1854), repr. in 5 volumes, Catania, R. Prampolini, 1933-35.
  • Chrestomathia Qorani Arabica (1893).
  • Al-Battānī sive Albatenii opus astronomicum: ad fidem codicis Escurialensis Arabice editum,[5] (1899 - 1907); the Latin title of al-Battānī's Kitāb Zīj al-Ṣābī’ (كتاب زيج الصابئ) ; multi-volume scientific treatise on geography and astronomy from Arabic manuscript, translated in 12th cent. Latin by Plato Tiburtinus, with Latin annotations.

References

  1. ^ Sterlich 1900.
  2. ^ "Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
  3. ^ L'Arabia Sa'udiana, Vol. I of Scritti editi e inediti, ed. Maria Nallino, Rome, Istituto per l'Oriente, 1938.
  4. ^ Capezzone, Leonardo (2012). Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 77.
  5. ^ Battānī (al-) 1899.

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