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Richard Boucher

ريشار بوشيه

Notable figure d. 1886 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 201; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 300 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Boucher, Richard, linked to the Divan de Férazdak (1870-1875), record cb30418101t

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the diwans of ʿUrwa ibn al-Ward and al-Farazdaq

Biography

He published the diwan of ʿUrwa ibn al-Ward with a French translation (Paris, 1867). He then edited the diwan of al-Farazdaq in the recension of Muhammad ibn Habib from Ibn al-Aʿrabi, from the unique manuscript in the Hagia Sophia library in Constantinople, with a French translation (Paris, 1870–1875): some 360 poems totalling about three thousand verses.