Anastase-Marie al-Karmali

Butrus Mikha'il 'Awwad al-Marini, better known as Anastase-Marie al-Karmali or by his original religious name Anastase-Marie de Saint Élie, was an Iraqi Catholic priest and Discalced Carmelite friar of Lebanese and Iraqi origins, best known for his contributions to Arabic lexicology and lexicography and to Arabic philology, as well as for editing the Lughat al-Arab, a "literary, scientific and historical" periodical issued from 1911 to 1914 and from 1926 to 1931. He was also a founding member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. Among his most famous works is an unfinished dictionary, Al-Musa'id, of which two volumes were published posthumously. He is considered to have been "one of the artisans of the Nahda".