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Henri-Paul-Joseph Renaud

ب. ج. رينو

Notable figure 1881–1945 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 166 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Renaud, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881-1945), physician, historian of Arab medicine

From France; worked in Morocco

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn al-Banna's treatise on the anwaʾ

Biography

A French physician who worked in Morocco, he devoted himself to the history of Arab medicine and science. He published Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi's treatise on the anwaʾ in the series of the Institut des hautes études marocaines in Rabat (1948); the anwaʾ books are a lexical genre on the names of stars and seasons. The thesis lists the edition among European editions of lexical treatises.