Yusuf al-Maghribi

(Arabic: يوسف المغربي) was a 17th-century traveler and 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 ' (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, ', 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 ( ) 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), , chapter 5.

See also

*''De vulgari eloquentia''

Year of birth unknown
16th-century births
1611 deaths
17th-century linguists
17th-century writers
17th-century lexicographers
17th-century travelers
17th-century Moroccan people
17th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
Arab grammarians
Arabs from the Ottoman Empire
Moroccan emigrants to Egypt

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