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Jean-Joseph-Léandre Bargès

جان جوزيف لياندر بارجيس

Notable figure 1810–1896 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 206; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 203 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bargès, Jean-Joseph-Léandre (1810-1896)

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Affiliation

Marseille professor of Arabic; Ibn al-Farid's Diwan (1855)

Biography

Born in Auriol near Marseille, he taught Arabic at Marseille and later Hebrew at the Sorbonne. He published the Diwan of Ibn al-Farid (Paris, 1855) from a copy prepared by Rushayd al-Dahdah, with notes on two of its odes, and translated al-Tanasi's history of the Banu Zayyan of Tlemcen into French (1852). In the Journal asiatique he wrote on an Arabic dictionary printed at Marseille (1848) and on the dictionary of Germanus Farhat (1849).