Yusuf al-Maghribi

_ar. Yūsuf al-Maġribi was a 17th century lexicographer active in Cairo. He is the first author to treat Egyptian Arabic as a dialect distinct from Classical Arabic, compiling an Egyptian-Arabic word list, the " _ar. Raf` al-'iṣr `an kalām 'ahl miṣr" (i.e. "apology of the Egyptian vernacular", literally "the lifting of the burden from the speech of the population of Egypt"), which survives in a unique manuscript kept at St. Petersburg State University.Al-Maghribi's dictionary reflects a wider trend in early 17th century Ottoman Egypt towards colloquial writing.

Edition

*Abdul-Salam Ahmad Awwad, " _ar. Raf` al-Isar `an kalam ahl misr", Moscow (1968).

References

*Elisabeth Zack. Yusuf al-Maghribi's Egyptian-Arabic Word List. A Unique Manuscript in the St. Petersburg State University Library, Manuscripta orientalia (ISSN 1238-5018 ) 2001, vol. 7, no3, pp. 46-49.
*Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900, American Univ in Cairo Press (2005), p. 34.
*Paula Sanders, Creating Medieval Cairo, American Univ in Cairo Press (2007), p. 99
*Nelly Hanna, In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Syracuse University Press (2003), ISBN 9780815630128, chapter 5.

ee also

*"De vulgari eloquentia"