Charles Pellat

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Charles Pellat

Charles Pellat (28 September 1914, in

Brill Academic Publishers, and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.[1]

Biography

Charles Pellat was born in Souk Ahras, French Algeria.

He was professor of Arabic at the

École des langues orientales from 1951 to 1956, and at the Sorbonne from 1956 to 1978. In 1984 he became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.[1]

He was a contributing editor to several articles of the

Brill Academic Publishers; throughout his career, he had translated several works written in Arabic by the classical Muslim scholar al-Jāḥiẓ
(781-869 CE) into French.

Works

  • (ed.) Description de l'Occident musulman au IVe-Xe siècle by
    Al-Muqaddasi
  • (tr. from Italian) La Littérature arabe des origines à l'époque de la dynastie umayyade: leçons professées en arabe by Carlo-Alfonso Nallino. Paris: Maisonneuve, 1950.
  • (tr. from
    al-Jāḥiẓ
    . Paris: Maisonneuve, 1951.
  • L'arabe vivant. Mots arabes groupes d'apres le sens et vocabulaire fondamental de l'arabe moderne, Paris, 1952.
  • Langue et littérature arabes, Paris: Colin, 1952.
  • Le milieu baṣrien et la formation de Ǧāḫiẓ, Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1953,
  • (tr. from
    al-Jāḥiẓ
    . Paris: Société d'édition "Les belles lettres", 1954.
  • (ed.) Le Kitāb at-tarbīʿ wa-t-tadwīr de Ğāḥiẓ by
    al-Jāḥiẓ
    . Damascus: Institut franc̜ais de Damas, 1955.
  • Textes berbères dans le parler des Ait Seghrouchen de la Moulouya, Paris: Larose, 1955.
  • Livre des mulets by
    al-Jāḥiẓ
    . Cairo: Muṣṭafā al-Bābī al-Ḥalabī, 1955.
  • Introduction a l'arabe moderne, Paris: Librairie D'Amerique et D'Orient, Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1961.
  • (ed.) Le calendrier de Cordoue by Abu-'l-Ḥasan ʿArīb Ibn-Saʿd al-Kātib al-Qurṭubī. New edition of the first impression, 1873. Leiden: Brill, 1961.
  • (ed. with Claude Cahen) Études arabes et islamiques : actes du XXIXe Congrès international des orientalistes , Paris: L'Asiathèque, 1975 .
  • Etudes sur l'histoire socio-culturelle de l'Islam, VIIe-XVe s., London: Variorum reprints, 1976.
  • (tr.) Conseilleur du calife by Ibn al-Muqaffa'. Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1976.
  • Textes arabes relatifs à la dactylonomie, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 1977.
  • (ed.) Cinq calendries égyptiens, Cairo: Inst. français d'archéologie orientale, 1986.
  • [Anon.], 'Liwât', in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. Republished annotated by Arno Schmitt, in A. Schmitt & Jehoaeda Sofer, eds., Sexuality; Eroticism Among Males in Muslim Societies, 1995.

References

  1. ^ a b Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France) (1992). Comptes rendus des séances – Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres. Éditions Klincksieck. p. 647. Retrieved 20 December 2012.