Munir al-Baalbaki

منير البعلبكي

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From a prominent Beirut family, and one of the best-known Arabic lexicographers of the twentieth century.

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Roles
writer · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Contemporary Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Rahman Badawi · Abdul Hameed Khan Swati · Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali · Aden Adde · Ahmed Ali Assami

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  • ScholarTradition

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Overview

Munir al-Baalbaki, from a prominent Beiruti family, and one of the best-known lexicographers of Arabic in the twentieth century. The Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa al-Udaba' says that he was born in 1918 CE and died in 1999 CE. 1

The data need an additional source: the page number is not recorded, and the birth and death dates come from a single source.

People and things also explored

God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.