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Jules Blin

جول بلان

Notable figure 1853–1891 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1061; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 269 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Blin, Jules (1853-1891)

From France; worked in Lebanon and Egypt

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Author of Éléments de grammaire arabe (Beirut, 1886)

Biography

Born at Marigné in France, he taught Coptic and died in Cairo. He wrote a French textbook of Arabic grammar in two parts, Éléments de grammaire arabe (Beirut: Imprimerie catholique, 1886), the first of about a hundred pages and the second of more than four hundred.