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Arsène Roux

أرسين رو

Notable figure 1893–1971 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 297; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 596 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Roux, Arsène (1893-1971)

From France; worked in Morocco

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Teacher of Arabic and Berber in Morocco; Banat Suʿad

Biography

He taught at the Institute of Higher Moroccan Studies in Rabat. For his students he published al-Tughraʾi's Lamiyyat al-ʿAjam, the Lamiyya of Ibn al-Wardi, Banat Suʿad, the Muʿallaqa of Zuhayr and the last three maqamat of al-Hariri. He wrote on the Berber dialects, on rare words in Arabic and Berber (1936) and on the speech of Moroccan women (1952).