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Henri Pérès

هنري بيريس

Notable figure 1890–1983 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 305; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 325 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Pérès, Henri (1890-1983)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor of Kuthayyir's Diwan; La poésie andalouse (1937)

Biography

Born in La Chiffa, Algeria, he taught at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers and inspected the teaching of Arabic in secondary schools. He edited the Diwan of Kuthayyir ʿAzza with commentary in two volumes (1927–1930) and al-Badiʿ fi wasf al-rabiʿ of Abu al-Walid al-Ishbili (1940), and wrote La poésie andalouse en arabe classique au XIe siècle (Paris, 1937) and an anthology of Arabic literature through its texts.