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Pascual de Gayangos
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Pascual de Gayangos

باسكوال دي غايانغوس

Notable figure 1809–1897 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 584; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 256 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Gayangos y Arce, Pascual de (1809-1897)

From Spain; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

First professor of Arabic at Madrid; translated Nafh al-tib

Biography

Born in Seville, he learned Arabic from de Sacy in Paris, became keeper of the Arabic manuscripts in the Royal Library, and in 1843 the first professor of Arabic at the University of Madrid. He translated a large part of al-Maqqari's Nafh al-tib into English (London, 1840–1843), published Ibn al-Qutiyya's Taʾrikh iftitah al-Andalus with Saavedra (1868), and assembled a library of more than four hundred manuscripts.