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Claude-Étienne Savary

كلود إتيان سافاري

Notable figure 1750–1788 · Source: Savary, Claude, authority record, Bibliothèque nationale de France; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 15, Ahmamou, p. 171 · Second source: Grammaire de la langue arabe vulgaire et littérale, Qatar National Library

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Grammar of literary and vulgar Arabic; French Qur'an (1783)

Biography

A Frenchman from Vitré who stayed in Egypt (1776–1779). He published his French translation of the Qur'an in Paris (1783) and left a grammar of literary and vulgar Arabic, which Langlès brought out after his death (Paris 1813) with Arabic tales and their translation.