User:Sirmylesnagopaleentheda

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.

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 GedolotTalk: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 OathsTalk: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 KayyaraTalk:Simeon Kayyara
 * Amram Gaon;
 * Sherira Gaon;
 * Zechariah Aghmati;
 * Moshe Alshich;
 * Solomon AlmoliTalk: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 ServantTalk:The Trusty Servant
 * List of Old Wykehamists;
 * George Isaac Huntingford;
 * Henry Cadwallader Adams.

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

 * 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 AbbeyTalk: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