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Charles Pellat
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Charles Pellat

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Notable figure 1914–1992 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 38, 126–137, 167, 170 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Charles Pellat (1914-1992)

Field: Literature and text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Jahiz and historian of Arabic literature

Biography

Born in Souk Ahras in Algeria, he taught at the Sorbonne. He wrote Langue et littérature arabes (1952) and Le milieu basrien et la formation de Ǧāḥiẓ (1953), and edited al-Jahiz's al-Qawl fi l-bighal (Cairo 1955) and al-Nubl wa-l-tanabbul (Arabica, 1967).