First published 1946."The first edition [published by the Church missionary society in 1939] was based largely upon W.H.T. Gairdner's Egyptian colloqu...
"The first edition [published by the Church missionary society in 1939] was based largely upon W.H.T. Gairdner's Egyptian colloquial Arabic. The present edition has been completely rewritten and some four-fifths of the material is entirely new." Pref. to 2d ed.