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Pierre Vattier

بيير فاتييه

Notable figure 1623–1667 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 172; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 762 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Vattier, Pierre (1623-1667), professor of Arabic at the Collège de France

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of al-Tughraʾi's Lamiyyat al-ʿAjam (1660)

Biography

Physician to the Duke of Orléans, he mastered Arabic and held its chair at the Collège royal in Paris (the Collège de France) from 1658 until his death. He translated a number of Arabic books into French, among them Ibn ʿArabshah's history of Timur, the chronicle of al-Makin ibn al-ʿAmid (1657) and Avicenna's logic. In 1660 he published al-Tughraʾi's Lamiyyat al-ʿAjam in French, with verses and maxims from other Arabic poets.