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Maurice Bouyges

موريس بويج

Notable figure 1878–1951 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1073; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 287 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Bouyges, Maurice (1878–1951)

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Kitab al-naʿam (1908) and the Tahafut (1927)

Biography

Born in Aurillac in the Auvergne, he studied at the Oriental Faculty in Beirut and taught there from 1906, helping to edit its journal. He published Kitab al-naʿam with commentary and notes (1908), and later showed that Ibn Qutayba was not its author (1921). As editor of the Arabic series of the Bibliotheca Arabica Scholasticorum he edited al-Ghazali's Tahafut al-falasifa (1927) and Ibn Rushd's Tahafut al-tahafut (1930), and wrote on the craft of the editor of Arabic texts (1937–1948).