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Stanislas Guyard

ستانيسلاس غويار

Notable figure 1846–1884 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 200; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 455 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Guyard, Stanislas (1846-1884)

Field: Prosody and rhetoric

Affiliation

Author of a new theory of Arabic metre (1877)

Biography

He taught Arabic and Persian at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris and in 1884 took the chair of Arabic language and literature at the Collège de France. His Théorie nouvelle de la métrique arabe, published in the Journal asiatique (1876–1877), read the Arabic metres through musical rhythm. He completed the French translation of Abu al-Fidaʾ's Taqwim al-buldan (1883) and was preparing part of al-Tabari's History for publication when he died.