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Charles Barbier de Meynard
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Charles Barbier de Meynard

شارل باربييه دي مينار

Notable figure 1826–1908 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 214; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 553 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1826-1908)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Masʿudi's Muruj and al-Zamakhshari's Atwaq

Biography

He studied at the École des jeunes de langues in Paris, served at the French consulate in Jerusalem and then in Tehran, and studied Turkish at the École des langues orientales and Arabic at the Collège de France, where he later taught; he also directed the Journal asiatique. He published al-Masʿudi's Muruj al-dhahab with translation in nine volumes (1861–1877) and al-Zamakhshari's Atwaq al-dhahab and Nawabigh al-kalim, and wrote on Ibn Malik's Alfiyya (1888) and on kunyas and nicknames in Arabic literature (1907). His Turkish–French dictionary records the Arabic and Persian words used in Turkish.