Murad, Michael
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Murad, Michael

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Murad-Michael http://syriaca.org/bibl/391 382 Michael Murad http://syriaca.org/person/644 [person] [Priest, teacher, and lexicographer.]

(1878–1952) [Syr. Cath.]

He was born in Mosul . He studied at the Seminary of St. John starting in 1893. He was ordained a priest in 1904 for Qaraqosh where he served for three years, after which he returned to Mosul and taught at the seminary.

He composed an Arabic-Syriac lexicon. The lemmas until sīn were published (n.d.), with a 2nd ed. published under the title ktobo d-simto / Arabisk-Ass. / Syr. Ordbok (1984), with an introduction in Syriac and Swedish by Gabriel Isik.

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 551–2.
Macuch, Geschichte, 437.

George A. Kiraz