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Vincent-Mansour Monteil

فنسان منصور مونتي

Notable figure 1913–2005 · Source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, «Monteil, Vincent-Mansour» · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Monteil, Vincent-Mansour (27 May 1913 – 27 February 2005), officer and university teacher

Field: Modern Standard Arabic

Affiliation

Author of L'arabe moderne (1960) on modern Arabic

Biography

A French army officer who turned to university teaching in Arabic and Islamic studies. He wrote L'arabe moderne (Paris, 1960), one of the first comprehensive studies of how the vocabulary, syntax and style of modern written Arabic had changed, and followed it with a bilingual anthology of contemporary Arabic literature (1961).