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Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes

موريس غودفروا دومومبين

Notable figure 1862–1957 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 284; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 433 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Maurice (1862-1957)

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Paris Arabic professor; classical grammar with Blachère

Biography

He taught Arabic at the École des langues orientales in Paris and was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. With Régis Blachère he wrote the Grammaire de l'arabe classique (Paris, 1937), one of the best grammars in French, and he translated the Hundred and One Nights (1911), the introduction to Ibn Qutayba's Kitab al-shiʿr wa-l-shuʿaraʾ and the travels of Ibn Jubayr.