Person

Kāmil, Murād

1907–1975

1935 Dr. phil. Univ. Tübingen; Egyptian scholar and educator in ancient and modern languages. He specialized in Semitic languages, ancient and modern, those of the Middle East as well as those of Ethiopia. A master of Greek, Latin, and classical Arabic, he was also well acquainted with many Western languages, including German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. He described 50 manuscripts from the Littmann Collection in Tübingen (1936), acquired during the latter's travels in Aksum, Jerusalem and Cairo in the beginning of the 20th century.