. . . . . "1953Z"^^ . . "Lebanese writer" . . . "Sheikh Ahmad Rida (also transliterated as Ahmad Reda) (1872\u20131953) (Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0634\u064A\u062E \u0623\u062D\u0645\u062F \u0631\u0636\u0627\u200E) was an Levantine Arab linguist, writer and politician. A key figure of the Arab Renaissance (known as al-Nahda), he created the first modern dictionary of the Arabic language, 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."@en . "1872Z"^^ . . "Rida, Ahmad"@en . . . . . "Ahmad Rida"@en . .