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Louis Massignon

لويس ماسينيون

Notable figure 1883–1962 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 287; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1012 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Massignon, Louis (1883-1962), born Nogent-sur-Marne 25 July 1883, died Paris 31 Oct. 1962

From France; worked in Egypt

Field: Terminology

Affiliation

Scholar of Arabic technical vocabulary; Essai (1922)

Biography

Born in Nogent-sur-Marne, he took the diploma in classical and colloquial Arabic at the École des langues orientales (1906). He gave forty lectures in Arabic on the history of philosophical terminology at the Egyptian University (1912–1913), later held a chair at the Collège de France, and was a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo. He wrote the Essai sur les origines du lexique technique de la mystique musulmane (1922) and edited al-Hallaj's Kitab al-Tawasin (1913) and Diwan (1931).