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Louis Mercier

لويس مرسييه

Notable figure 1879–1945 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 294; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1038 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Mercier, Louis-Charles-Émile (1879-1945)

From France; worked in Morocco

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Hudhayl's Hilyat al-fursan (1922); dialects

Biography

He served as an interpreter officer in Morocco and later became a minister plenipotentiary. He published the Arabic text of Ibn Hudhayl al-Andalusi's Hilyat al-fursan wa-shiʿar al-shujʿan (Paris, 1922) and then translated it into French, and edited and translated the same author's Tuhfat al-anfus wa-shiʿar sukkan al-Andalus (1936). He wrote on the colloquial Arabic of southern Oran (1905), on Berber and Spanish elements in the Moroccan dialects (1906), and on hunting and sport among the Arabs (1927).