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André Miquel
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André Miquel

أندريه ميكيل

Notable figure 1929–2022 · Source: Collège de France, biography: André Miquel, chair of classical Arabic language and literature · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Miquel, André (26 Sept. 1929, Mèze – 27 Dec. 2022, Paris)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Collège de France chair of Arabic; Kalila wa-Dimna

Biography

Born in Mèze in southern France, he studied at the École normale supérieure and was a scholar at the French Institute in Damascus (1953–1954). He held the chair of classical Arabic language and literature at the Collège de France (1976–1997). He translated Kalila wa-Dimna into French (1957) and the poetry of Majnun Layla, edited with Jamel Eddine Bencheikh the Thousand and One Nights for the Pléiade (2005–2006), and published al-Hamadhani's Maqamat (2020).