Ahmad Rida
Born
Jun 04, 1872 (153)
Birth Place
Nabatieh
Nationality
Lebanon
Died
1953-07-07
About
Sheikh Ahmad Rida (1872–1953) was a Lebanese linguist, writer and politician. A key figure of the Arab Renaissance, he compiled the modern monolingual Arabic dictionary, Matn al-Lugha, commissioned by the Arab Academy of Damascus in 1930, and is widely considered to be among the foremost scholars of Arab literature and linguistics.