Peter of Matush — ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ
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ܦܛܪܘܣ ܕܡܛܘܫ; Peṭros of Maṭush; Peter of Matush; Peter al-Matushi; Buṭrus al-Maṭūši; Buṭrus al-Maṭūši; Petrus Metoscita; Pietro Metoscita
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Peter of Matush (known in print as Petrus Metoscita) was a cleric and scholar of Arabic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries C.E. Born to a Maronite family in Cyprus, he studied at the Maronite College in Rome where he later taught and became a Jesuit. He is the author of an Arabic grammar Institutiones linguae arabicae.
birth: 1569, Cyprus
death: 1625, Rome
male
state: Author
Macuch, Geschichte der spät- und neusyrischen Literatur 51
Institutiones linguae arabicae, ex diversis Arabum monumentis collectae, et ad quam maximam fieri potuit brevitatem, atque ordinem revocatae. Quibus addita est exercitatio grammatica in Psalmum XXXIV.
Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) 196