# Edward Pococke the elder

- id: edward-pococke-elder
- dates: 1604–1691
- roles: editor, scholar

England's first professor of Arabic, at Oxford from 1636. As Levant Company chaplain in Aleppo in the 1630s he bought the manuscript of Hayy ibn Yaqzan that his son would translate; he edited the Arabic and wrote the preface of the 1671 edition.

## Crossings

- 1671: Hayy ibn Yaqzan into Latin (editor) [attested]

## Sources

- Russell, G. A. (ed.) (1994). The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England.