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Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy
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Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy

جوزيف إليودور غارسان دو تاسي

Notable figure 1794–1878 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 196; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 530 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Garcin de Tassy, Joseph Héliodore (1794-1878)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of al-Maqdisi's Kashf al-asrar (1821)

Biography

A pupil of de Sacy in Arabic, he succeeded him as editor of the Journal asiatique. He edited Ibn Ghanim al-Maqdisi's Kashf al-asrar ʿan hikam al-tuyur wa-l-azhar with a French translation (Paris, 1821), translated three of al-Hariri's maqamat (1822–1824), and wrote on the rhetoric and prosody of the Muslim peoples.