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Évariste Lévi-Provençal
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Évariste Lévi-Provençal

إيفاريست ليفي بروفنسال

Notable figure 1894–1956 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 275; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, pp. 974–977 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lévi-Provençal, Évariste (1894-1956), born 4 Jan. 1894, died 23 March 1956; director of the Institut des hautes études marocaines, professor at Algiers and the Sorbonne

From France; worked in Morocco and Algeria

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Bayan al-mughrib and Aʿmal al-aʿlam

Biography

Born in Algeria, he graduated from the Faculty of Letters in Algiers, then taught at and directed the Institut des hautes études marocaines in Rabat (1926–1935) before teaching at Algiers and Paris. His doctorate was accompanied by Arabic texts in the Ouargha dialect of the Jbala in northern Morocco; he edited the third part of Ibn ʿIdhari's al-Bayan al-mughrib (1930) and Ibn al-Khatib's Aʿmal al-aʿlam (1934), sat on the Cairo committee editing Ibn Bassam's al-Dhakhira (1938), and founded the journal Arabica (1954).