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Joseph Toussaint Reinaud
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Joseph Toussaint Reinaud

جوزيف توسان رينو

Notable figure 1795–1867 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 642 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Reinaud, Joseph Toussaint (1795-1867)

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Affiliation

Paris professor of Arabic; co-editor of al-Hariri

Biography

Born at Lambesc, he studied under de Sacy, became keeper of the Oriental manuscripts at the library in Paris and then professor of Arabic at the School of Oriental Languages, where he trained many students. With Joseph Derenbourg he brought out a revised and enlarged second edition of de Sacy's al-Hariri (1847–1853), and with de Slane he edited Abu l-Fida's Taqwim al-buldan (1840).