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Charles Defrémery
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Charles Defrémery

شارل دفريمري

Notable figure 1822–1883 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 199; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 565 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Defrémery, Charles (1822-1883)

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Affiliation

Co-editor and translator of Ibn Battuta's Rihla (1853–1858)

Biography

Born in Cambrai, he learned Arabic from Caussin de Perceval and Persian from Quatremère, and succeeded his teacher at the Collège de France. With Sanguinetti he edited Ibn Battuta's Tuhfat al-nuzzar with a French translation in four volumes (Paris, 1853–1858), and wrote on French words of Arabic origin (1867) and on Spanish and Portuguese words of Arabic origin (1869).