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Marius Canard

ماريوس كانار

Notable figure 1888–1982 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 303; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 859 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Canard, Marius (1888-1982)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Compiler of literary and historical texts on Sayf al-Dawla

Biography

He taught at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers and spent twenty years gathering from books and manuscripts what was recorded of Sayf al-Dawla al-Hamdani, publishing it as a collection of historical and literary texts (Algiers, 1934) that remained the reference for his age. He also wrote on the pattern faʿālī in Arabic (1934–1935), on al-Mutanabbi and the Arab-Byzantine wars (1936), on Byzantine names in the poetry of Abu Firas, and on the popular epics of Dhat al-Himma and ʿUmar al-Nuʿman.