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CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL

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PERCEVAL , ARMAND-See also:PIERRE (1795—1871), See also:French orientalist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 13th of See also:January 1795. His See also:father, See also:Jean Jacques See also:Antoine Caussin de Perceval (1759—1835), was See also:professor of Arabic in the See also:College de See also:France. In 1814 he went to See also:Constantinople as a student interpreter, and afterwards travelled in See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey, spending a See also:year with the See also:Maronites in the See also:Lebanon, and finally becoming dragoman at See also:Aleppo. Returning to Paris, he became professor of vulgar Arabic in the school of living See also:Oriental See also:languages in 1821, and also professor of Arabic in the College de France in 1833. In 1849 he was elected to the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions. He died at Paris during the See also:siege on the 15th of January 1871. Caussin de Perceval published (1828) a useful Grammaire arabe vulgaire, which passed through several See also:editions (4th ed., 1858), and edited and enlarged See also:Elie Bocthor's 1 Dictionnaire See also:francais-arabe (2 vols., 1828; 3rd ed., 1864); but his See also:great reputation rests almost entirely on one See also:book, the Essai sur l'histoire See also:des Arabes avant l'Islamisme, See also:pendant l'epoque de See also:Mahomet (3 vols., 1847—1849), in which the native traditions as to the See also:early See also:history of the See also:Arabs, down to the See also:death of Mahommed and the See also:complete subjection of all the tribes to See also:Islam, are brought together with wonderful See also:industry and set forth with much learning and lucidity. One of the See also:principal MS. See also:sources used is the great Kitkb al-Aghfni (Book of Songs) of See also:Abu Faraj, which has since been published (20 vols., Boulak, 1868) in See also:Egypt; but no publication of texts can deprive the Essai, which is now very rare, of its value as a trustworthy See also:guide through a tangled See also:mass of tradition.

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