El-Said Muhammad Badawi (Arabic: السعيد محمد بدوي, romanized: Al-Saʿīd Muḥammad Badawī; 1929 – March 16, 2014) was a scholar and linguist and author of many works, both in English and in Arabic, dealing with various aspects of the Arabic language.[1]
El-Said Badawi | |
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| Born | El-Said Muhammad Badawi 1929 El-Nakhas, Zagazig, Sharqiyya Governorate, Egypt |
| Died | March 16, 2014 (aged 84–85) |
| Alma mater | Cairo University, University of London |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist, scholar |
Having learned the Qur'an by the age of ten in his village, El-Nakhas, Sharqiyya Governorate, he attended Al-Azhar University for his secondary schooling. He received a B.A. in Arabic Language & Literature and Islamic Studies from Cairo University, an M.A. in General Linguistics and Phonetics from the University of London, and his Ph.D. in Experimental Phonetics from the University of London.[2]
After obtaining his Ph.D. Badawi briefly taught linguistics at the University of Cairo, then began teaching Arabic literature and linguistics at Omdurman University in Sudan,[3] and moved to the American University in Cairo in 1969, where he became the Curriculum Advisor for the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in 1970.[4]
Badawi's wide-ranging interests included colloquial Egyptian Arabic, classical Arabic as found in the Qur'an, and the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. In the field of sociolinguistics, perhaps Badawi's best known work is Mustawayāt al-ʻArabīyah al-muʻāṣirah fī Miṣr (Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt) wherein he challenges the traditional simplistic dichotomy of Classical and Colloquial Arabic, proposing instead a more subtle analysis involving several levels of usage.[5][6]
Works
editEnglish
edit- An intonational study of colloquial Riyadhi Arabic. 1965 (Ph.D. thesis)
- A comprehensive study of Egyptian Arabic. 1978 (coauthored with E.T. Abdel-Massih et al.)
- A reference grammar of Egyptian Arabic. 1979 (coauthored with E.T. Abdel-Massih et al.)
- A comprehensive study of Egyptian Arabic 2. Proverbs and metaphoric expressions 1981 (coauthored with E.T. Abdel-Massih et al.)
- A dictionary of Egyptian Arabic : Arabic-English. 1986 (coauthored with M. Hinds)
- Sultan Qaboos encyclopedia of Arab names 2, Treasury of Arab Names, in four volumes. 1991 (coauthored with M. Al-Zubair)
- Modern written Arabic : a comprehensive grammar. 2002
- Arabic-English dictionary of Qur'anic usage. 2007
Arabic
edit- Mustawayāt al-ʻArabīyah al-muʻāṣirah fī Miṣr : baḥth fī ʻalāqat al-lughah bi-al-ḥaḍārah. 1973
- Muʻjam asmāʼ al-ʻArab. 1991
- Dalīl aʻlām ʻUmān. 1991
- al-Kitāb al-asāsī fī taʻlīm al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah li-ghayr al-nāṭiqīn bi-hā. 2006
- Buḥūth lughawīyah wa-tarbawīyah fī qaḍāyā al-ʻArabīyah al-muʻāṣirah wa-mushkilātihā. 2015
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ فاروق شوشة (2014) السعيد بدوي: عالم من طراز نادر Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Sign In". archive-edu.com. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
- ^ White, Lisa (2014) El-Said Badawi
- ^ Bellis, Jeffrey (2009). Appeal for Arabic AUCToday, Fall 2009.
- ^ Although this work has not yet been translated into English Badawi explains briefly his classification of levels in his article Educated spoken Arabic: A problem in teaching Arabic as a foreign language in Jankowsky, Kurt R. (Ed.). (1985) Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. ISBN 9027220131. Pages 15-22.
- ^ see also Sayahi, Lotfi (2014) Diglossia and Language Contact: Language Variation and Change in North Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139867078. Pages 59-60. and Paulson, Christina (1988) International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313244841. Pages 52-53.