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Gustave Dugat

غوستاف دوغا

Notable figure 1824–1894 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 204; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 558 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Dugat, Gustave (1824-1894)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor; co-edited al-Maqqari's Nafh al-tib (Leiden)

Biography

Born in Orange in southern France, he learned Arabic at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris under Reinaud and Caussin de Perceval and later taught there. With Dozy, Krehl and Wright he edited al-Maqqari's Nafh al-tib in Leiden, published the Emir ʿAbd al-Qadir's Dhikra al-ʿaqil with a French translation, and wrote with Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq a French grammar for Arab students.