Voice of Arabic Network
Search

Jean Gagnier

جان غانييه

Notable figure c. 1670–1740 · Source: Gordon Goodwin, «Gagnier, John», Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 20 (1889); al-Istishraq al-Faransi fi al-Maghrib al-ʿArabi (doctoral thesis, CERIST copy), p. 51 · Second source: Fihrist, union catalogue of manuscripts: Collected notes on Ḥarīrī, by Gagnier, Jean (MS. Bodl. Or. 289)

From France; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Oxford Arabic professor; editor of Abu al-Fidaʾ's sira

Biography

French by origin, born in Paris, he settled in England. He read the Arabic lecture at Oxford for John Wallis (1717) and took the Lord Almoner's chair of Arabic (1724). He published the Arabic text of Abu al-Fidaʾ's Life of the Prophet with a Latin version and notes (Oxford 1723). His collected notes on al-Hariri survive in manuscript at the Bodleian (292 leaves), excerpts from the works and commentaries, mostly with a Latin version.