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Roland Meynet

رولان مينيه

Notable figure b. 1939 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1030 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Meynet, Roland (1939-....)

From France; worked in Lebanon and Italy

Field: Arabic script

Affiliation

Author of L'écriture arabe en question (1971)

Biography

He worked in Beirut, where Dar el-Machreq published his L'écriture arabe en question (1971) in its series on the peoples and societies of the Near East, a study of the Cairo Arabic Language Academy's projects to reform Arabic script. He later turned to the rhetorical analysis of ancient Semitic texts, which he taught in Rome.