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Bernard Carra de Vaux

برنار كارا دي فو

Notable figure 1867–1953 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 263; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 543 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 1050909178: Carra de Vaux, Bernard (1867–1953)

Field: Literary translation

Affiliation

Translated Avicenna's ʿAyniyya and Ibn al-Farid's Taʾiyya

Biography

Born in Bar-sur-Aube, he taught Arabic at the Institut catholique in Paris, though most of his work was on the history of Arabic science and philosophy. He translated into French Avicenna's poem on the soul, the ʿAyniyya, published in the Journal asiatique (1899), and also Ibn al-Farid's Taʾiyya. He died in Nice.