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Jacques Berque

جاك بيرك

Notable figure 1910–1995 · Source: Collège de France, biography: Jacques Berque · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n50007713: Berque, Jacques (b. 1910 in Frenda; d. 1995)

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translator; the ten Muʿallaqat into French (1979)

Biography

Born in Frenda, Algeria, he worked there and in Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon before holding a chair at the Collège de France (1956–1981). He translated the ten Muʿallaqat as Les Dix grandes odes arabes de l'anté-Islam (Paris: Sindbad, 1979), and rendered the Qur'an into French with close attention to its style (1990, revised 1995). He translated selected pages of the Kitab al-Aghani in Musiques sur le fleuve (1995).