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Carlo Alfonso Nallino (18 February 1872 – 25 July 1938) was anItalianorientalist.
Nallino was born inTurin, and studied literature underItalo Pizzi at theUniversity of Turin. From 1896 he taught in theIstituto Universitario Orientale ofNaples and then at theUniversity of Palermo (1902–1913). By the age of 21 Nallino had gained an international reputation for his publication of an Arabic manuscript by the celebrated tenth-centuryArab astronomeral-Battānī.
With his publication of a book on Egyptian Arab dialect in 1900[1] he was invited by KingFuad I of Egypt to teach at the Egyptian Khedive University. Amongst his pupils there wasTaha Husayn, who would go on to become Minister of the Education.
Nallino eventually returned to Italy to take up the position of ordinary professor at theUniversity La Sapienza of Rome, where, in 1921, he had founded theIstituto per l'Oriente,[2] which published the monthly journalOriente Moderno. In 1933 he was named member of the Royal Academy of Arab Language inCairo, and he was a member of the ItalianAccademia Nazionale dei Lincei and of theRoyal Academy of Italy. In 1938 he travelled for two months in theArabic Peninsula, visiting the newly formed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but he died shortly afterwards in Rome from a cardiac arrest after publishing only the first volumes of the studies about his trip,[3][4]
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