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Jean-Claude Vadet

جان كلود فاديه

Notable figure b. 1931 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 329; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 764 · Second source: IdRef (ABES), authority record: Vadet, Jean-Claude

From France; worked in Egypt

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Author of L'esprit courtois en Orient (1968)

Biography

Born and schooled in Cairo, he graduated from the Sorbonne, took the agrégation (1954) and the doctorate (1960), and joined the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (1959). He wrote on the history of Arabic metres (1955), edited and translated Abu al-Hasan al-Daylami's ʿAtf al-alif al-maʾluf ʿala al-lam al-maʿtuf on love (Cairo, 1962), and wrote L'esprit courtois en Orient dans les cinq premiers siècles de l'Hégire (Paris, 1968), translated into Arabic (Damascus, 1985).