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André du Ryer

أندريه دو رييه

Notable figure 17th century · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. ٧٩ · Second source: Juan Pablo Arias Torres, «André Du Ryer in Spanish: an Anonymous Handwritten Indirect Translation of the Qur'an», TRANS 28 (2024), pp. 23–34, citing Hamilton and Richard, André Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France (2004); see also Arnoud Vrolijk, Leiden Special Collections blog, 13 January 2010

From France; worked in Egypt

Field: Qur'an translation

Affiliation

First complete French version of the Qur'an (1647)

Biography

A French merchant who served as his country's consul in Alexandria and Cairo, he knew Arabic and Turkish and wrote a Turkish grammar. In 1647 he published L'Alcoran de Mahomet in Paris, relying on his own Arabic, an Arabic–Turkish dictionary, and the commentaries of the two Jalals and al-Baydawi. The version is inaccurate, but it spread across Europe, being turned into English (1649), Dutch (1658) and German (1688).