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Edmond Fagnan

إدمون فانيان

Notable figure 1846–1931 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 236; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 770 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Fagnan, Edmond (1846-1931)

From Belgium; worked in France and Algeria

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Author of Additions aux dictionnaires arabes (1923)

Biography

Born in Liège, Belgium, he graduated from the School of Oriental Languages in Paris and taught Arabic and Persian at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers (1884–1919). He compiled the Additions aux dictionnaires arabes (Algiers, 1923), supplying words and senses the dictionaries lacked, catalogued the Arabic manuscripts of the Algiers library, and translated al-Marrakushi's al-Muʿjib, Ibn ʿIdhari's al-Bayan al-mughrib and al-Mawardi's al-Ahkam al-sultaniyya into French.