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Joseph-Charles Mardrus
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Joseph-Charles Mardrus

جوزيف شارل ماردروس

Notable figure 1868–1949 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 265; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 994 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Mardrus, Joseph-Charles (1868-1949)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of the Thousand and One Nights into French

Biography

Born in Cairo and schooled by the Jesuits, he studied medicine in France and practised as a physician. He translated the Thousand and One Nights into French, freely and at length, in sixteen volumes (Paris, 1899–1904), the fullest French version after Galland's, and published a French rendering of the Qurʾan (1926).