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Thomas Obicini of Novara ({{lang-it|Tomasso Obicini da Novara}}; 1585{{nbsp}}– 7 November 1632) was a Franciscan friar, originally from Novara, Italy. As an early orientalist, Arabist and linguist, he translated Arabic texts into Latin and took possession of the Grotto of Nazareth for the Franciscan order in 1620. Journey to NazarethIn 1620 Fra Obicini's travelled to Jerusalem to the Emir of Beirut, Fakhr ad-Din II. The background to this mission began seven years earlier, in 1613, when Fakhr ad-Din II had taken refuge in Tuscany, Italy. The emir formed an alliance with the Medici ruler, Cosimo II, and spent two years under his protection. He spent three more in Sicily and Naples seeking, and failing, to rally a Crusade against Ottoman rule. By 1618 the changed political situation permitted his return to Lebanon. Two years later Friar Obicini journeyed to Jerusalem in an embassy with Lord Battista Tarquet, the Consul of all Palestine, sent by the consul of Sidon, the Christian King, Lord Albert Gardana and the Prosecutor of the Holy Land, Lord Francis Lebar. In Beirut, Obicini was, according to his account, warmly and lavishly received by the emir ad-Din, who had readily granted the two Christian holy sites, the Grotto of the Annunciation, i.e. the Grotto of Nazareth, and Mount Tabor to his Franciscan order. In his description of the acquisition of the holy sites he recounts how he travelling to Nazareth, as a small group of a priest, friar John of Vendôme, and a Sicilian friar, Francesco Salice, had brought letters from the Princes, various testimonials, and a decree from the Qadi of Safed. On Saturday 29 November 1620, the group took possession of the sanctuary built on the foundations of the House of Loreto and known as the Holy Grotto - the site venerated by Christians as the place where the Angel Gabriel announced the birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary.[1] While Obicini was abbot in the convent of Aleppo, Syria he had mastered Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Coptic languages. In 1621, he was the first lector in Arabic in the San Pietro in Montorio convent and was a precursor of Athanasius Kircher. In 1631 Obicini published Grammatica Arabica; a Latin translation of the 13th-14th century Arabic grammar {{lang|ar|Matn Al Ajrumiyyah}}, ({{lang|ar|إلاجرُومِية}}),[2] by Abū Abdullaahi Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Dāwūd aṣ-Ṣanhaajī, known as Ibn Adjurrum. In 1636 Obicini published Thesaurus Arabico-Syro-Latinus, his opus magnum; a Latin expanded translation of Elijah of Nisibis's 11th-century glossary intended to assist Latin-speaking prelates in converting Syrians and other Arabic speakers. Literature
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References1. ^[https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.SOCC.3.171 Riedizione e traduzione degli opuscoli di Tommaso Obicini da Novara sulle processioni nei Luoghi Santi e sull’acquisto dei santuari di Nazaret e Ain Karem (1623)] {{DEFAULTSORT:Obicini, Thomas}}2. ^[https://archive.org/details/waqmamme Matn Al Ajrumiyyah] 7 : 1585 births|1632 deaths|Italian Franciscans|Italian Arabists|Italian orientalists|17th-century translators|Linguists |
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