STERLING, Robert.

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Arabic and English Idiom: Conversational and Literary. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With the author's compliments." Sterling (1859-1917) served as a Church Missionary Society medical missionary in Gaza from 1893 and was attached to St George's Collegiate Church, Jerusalem.Sterling believed that a mastery of classical Arabic was the route to proficiency in the spoken idiom. His Grammar of the Arabic Language was published in 1904.

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