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CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL , ARMAND-PIERRE (17951871), French orientalist, was born in Paris on the 13th of January 1795. His father, Jean
Antoine
Constantinople as a student interpreter, and afterwards travelled in Asiatic Turkey, spending a year with the Maronites in the Lebanon, and finally becoming dragoman at Aleppo. Returning to Paris, he became professor of vulgar Arabic in the school of living Oriental languages in 1821, and also professor of Arabic in the College de France in 1833. In 1849 he was elected to the Academy
Inscriptions . He died at Paris during the siege on the 15th of January 1871.Caussin de Perceval published (1828) a useful Grammaire arabe vulgaire, which passed through several editions (4th ed., 1858), and edited and enlarged Elie Bocthor's 1 Dictionnaire francais-arabe (2 vols., 1828; 3rd ed., 1864); but his great
Mahomet (3 vols., 18471849), in which the native traditions as to the early history of the Arabs, down to the death of Mahommed and the complete subjection of all the tribes to Islam
principal
great
Egypt
rare, of its value as a trustworthy guide through a tangled mass of tradition. End of Article: CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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