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Octave Houdas

أوكتاف هوداس

Notable figure 1840–1916 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 218; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1084 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Houdas, Octave (1840-1916)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Arabic professor; editor of Nuzhat al-hadi, Tarikh al-Sudan

Biography

He taught Arabic in Algeria, became an inspector-general of education there, and wrote school books for teaching the language. He was then appointed professor of Arabic at the École des langues orientales vivantes in Paris. He published Maghribi Arabic texts with French translations, among them al-Ifrani's Nuzhat al-hadi (1888–1889) and al-Saʿdi's Tarikh al-Sudan (1898–1900), and an anthology of Maghribi literature with a glossary of its words (1891).