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Dominique Sourdel

دومينيك سورديل

Notable figure 1921–2014 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 330; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 698 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 135810221: Sourdel, Dominique (1921–2014)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Baghdadi's Kitab al-kuttab (1952–54)

Biography

Born at Pont-Sainte-Maxence, he devoted himself to the history of the ʿAbbasid state and its chanceries. He edited, with an introduction and notes, the Kitab al-kuttab wa-sifat al-dawat wa-l-qalam of Abu l-Qasim ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Baghdadi, «the grammarian scribe», in the Bulletin d'études orientales of the French Institute in Damascus (1952–1954). He also wrote on the biography of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (1954) and on the literary value of al-Jahshiyari's Book of Viziers (1955).