I am a barrister and retired civil servant living in London. My areas of interest (within Wikipedia) are law, comparative religion and linguistics, especially Romance and Semitic.

I have user pages at the following projects:

• Latin language Wikipedia
• Italian language Wikipedia
• English language Wikibooks
• Ancient Greek project incubator
• Metawiki

I have contributed to the following articles. (The semi-colon or full stop after each article name is a link to that article's talk page.) It does not follow that I am an expert on all these topics! In some cases I have just added references, or edited for sense and grammar.

Jews and Judaism

Jewish ethnic groups

• Jewish ethnic divisions ;
• Sephardim ;
  • Sephardic law and customs ;
• Mizrahi Jews ;
• Arab Jews ;
• Spanish and Portuguese Jews ;
  • Bevis Marks Synagogue ;
  • Lauderdale Road Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue ;

• • History of the Jews in Livorno ;
  • Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg ;
• Syrian Jews ;
  • History of the Jews in Syria ;
  • Musta'arabi Jews ;
  • Syrian Jewish communities of the United States ;
• History of the Jews in Iraq ;
• History of the Jews in Morocco (talk page)
• Yemenite Jews ;
• Italian Jews ;
• Romaniote Jews ;
• Ashkenazi Jews ;
  • Lithuanian Jews ;
  • History of the Jews in Lithuania .

Jewish religious literature

• Chumash ;
• Aleppo Codex ;
• Mikraot Gedolot ;
• Nevi'im ;
• Ketuvim ;
• Bible translations into Spanish ;
• Bible translations into Arabic ;
• Mishnah ;
  • Pirkei Avot ;
• Talmud ;
• Jerusalem Talmud ;
• Halachot Gedolot :
• Tosafot ;
• Mishneh Torah ;
• Arba'ah Turim ;
• Shev Shema'tata ;
• Kitzur Shulchan Aruch ;
• Ḥoq le-Yisra'el ;
• Siddur .

Jewish religious concepts and usages

• Religio Judaica (Latin Wikipedia) ;
• Jewish principles of faith ;
• Ten Commandments ;
• Who is a Jew? ;
• Jews as a chosen people ;
• Matrilineality in Judaism ;
• Torah study ;
• Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum ;
• Seder ha-Mishmarah ;
• Yeshiva ;
  • Kisse Rahamim yeshivah ;
• Pilpul ;
• Nafka minnah ;
• Be-mai peligei ;
• Haredi Judaism ;
• Anusim ;
• Three Oaths :
• Dor Daim ;
• Tannaim ;
• Geonim ;
• Minhag ;
• Nusach ;
  • Nusach Ashkenaz ;
  • Nusach Sefard ;
  • Nusach Ari ;
  • Palestinian minhag ;
• High Holy Days ;
• Haftarah ;
• Maftir ;
• Kaddish ;
• Aleinu .

Jewish music

• Religious Jewish music ;
• Hebrew cantillation ;
• Baqashot ;
• Pizmonim ;
• Piyyut ;
• The Weekly Maqam ;
• Jewish prayer modes ;
• Syrian Cantors ;
• Carlo Grossi ;
• Edwin Seroussi .

Jewish personalities

• Yehudai Gaon ;
• Simeon Kayyara :
• Amram Gaon ;
• Sherira Gaon ;
• Zechariah Aghmati ;
• Moshe Alshich ;
• Solomon Almoli :
• Shalom Sharabi ;
• Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas ;
• David Nieto ;
• Menahem Lonzano ;
• Joseph ben Hayyim Hazan ;
• David ben Solomon Altaras ;
• Hayim Palaggi ;
• Yosef Hayyim (the Ben Ish Hai) ;
• Isaac ben Moses Abulafia ;
• Isaac Leeser ;
• Grace Aguilar ;
• J. J. Benjamin ;
• Israel Moses Hazan ;
• Yiḥyah Qafiḥ ;
• Yosef Qafiḥ ;
• Shem Tob Gaguine ;
• Chaim Bermant .

Islam

• Akhbari ;
• Principles of Islamic jurisprudence ;
• Muhammad Baqir Behbahani ;
• Morteza Ansari ;
• Medieval Christian views on Muhammad .

Zoroastrianism

• Avesta ;
• Pahlavi ;
• Pazand ;
• Vendidad .

Philosophy

• Chaldean Oracles ;
• Themistius ;
• Hircocervus ;
• The Theology of Aristotle ;
• Liber de Causis ;
• Islamic philosophy ;
• Jewish philosophy ;
• Averroes ;
• The Book of Healing ;
• Active intellect ;
• Passive intellect ;
• Historicism .

Wykehamica

• Winchester College ;
• Notions (Winchester College) ;
• The Trusty Servant :
• List of Old Wykehamists ;
• George Isaac Huntingford ;
• Henry Cadwallader Adams .

Languages

General linguistics

• Hypercorrection ;
  • Hyperforeignism ;
• Back-formation ;
  • List of English back-formations ;
• Spelling pronunciation ;
• False etymology ;
  • List of common false etymologies of English words ;
  • Folk etymology ;
• False cognate ;

English language

• Wikipedia:List of commonly misused English words ;
• List of English words with disputed usage ;
• Average ;
• Caesarean section ;
• Double negative ;
• Psychobabble (talk page)

Jewish languages

• Hebrew language ;
  • Hebrew alphabet ;
  • Sephardi Hebrew ;
  • Italian Hebrew ;
  • Mizrahi Hebrew ;
  • Yemenite Hebrew ;
  • Ashkenazi Hebrew ;
  • Samaritan Hebrew ;
  • Tiberian vocalization ;
  • Mater lectionis ;
• Judaeo-Aramaic ;
  • Targum (Aramaic dialects) ;
  • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic ;
  • Jewish Palestinian Aramaic ;
  • Samaritan Aramaic ;
• Judaeo-Arabic ;
  • Jewish Baghdadi Arabic ;
• Judaeo-Spanish ;
  • Haketia ;
• Judaeo-Italian ;
• Judaeo-Persian .

Arabic language

• Influence of Arabic on other languages ;
• Levantine Arabic ;
  • North Syrian Arabic ;
  • Palestinian Arabic ;
• Iraqi Arabic ;
• North Mesopotamian Arabic ;
• Declension of nouns ;
• Al- .

Other languages

• Anglo-Norman language ;
• Law French ;
• Ancient Greek Wikipedia discussion page
• Ancient Greek dialects ;
• Aorist (Ancient Greek) ;
• Pontic Greek ;
• Chagatai language .

Law

• Littleton ;
• Voir dire ;
• Jury selection ;
• Ejectment ;
• Wednesbury unreasonableness ;
• Lombard law ;
• Liber feudorum .

Literature

• Argonautica Orphica ;
• Thomas Love Peacock ;
  • Nightmare Abbey :
• The Inner House ;
• Henry Cecil ;
• The Chronicles of Narnia (and see articles on individual novels) ;
• Out of the Silent Planet ;
• Beachcomber ;
• Myles na Gopaleen ;
  • An Béal Bocht (The Poor Mouth) ;
• A. J. Cronin (and see articles on individual novels) ;
• Robert Player ;
• W. H. Lane Crauford ;
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant ;
• Harry Flashman ;
• The Harpole Report .

Cookery

• Sofrito ;
• Mejadra ;
• Sambousak ;
• Kibbeh ;
• Ma'amoul ;
• Haroset ;
• Panzerotti ;
• Malloreddus (Italian Wikipedia) .

Other

• Instant Sunshine ;
• Kit and The Widow ;
• Patrilineality ;
• Matrilineality .
• My sandbox

This user is of Sephardi Jewish ancestry.

This user is of Italian ancestry.

This user is of Norwegian ancestry.

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