Abbe Jean-Joseph-Léandre Bargès, (born in
Auriol, Bouches-du-Rhône
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, February 27, 1810 - December 31, 1896) was a French orientalist.
In 1834 Barges was officially appointed as a priest and became an Arabic teacher at
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
in 1837. From 1842 to 1885 Barges was professor of Arabic at the Theological Academy in Paris.
Barges focused on the study of the
Qarawiyyin medieval scholars, publishing commentaries in Arabic from Yaft bin Ali, interpreted various psalms (1861) and later reviewed Nasyid al-Anasyid (1884). Barges also published a treatise of
Judah ibn Kuraish
Judah ibn Kuraish ( he, יהודה אבן קריש, ar, يهوذا بن قريش), was an Algerian-Jewish grammarian and lexicographer. He was born at Tiaret in Algeria and flourished in the 9th century. While his grammatical works advanced little ...
, on the study of the emergence of Hebrew.
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French orientalists