Charles Pellat (28 September 1914, in

Souk Ahras Souk Ahras (Berber: ''Tagast''; ancient name: ''Thagast''; ar, سوق أهراس) is a municipality in Algeria. It is the capital of Souk Ahras Province. The Numidian city of Thagaste (or Tagaste), on whose ruins Souk Ahras was built, was the bi ...

– 28 October 1992, in Bourg-la-Reine) was an Algerian-born French academic, historian, translator, and scholar of

Oriental studies Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studi ...

, specialized in

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and

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

. He was an editor of the ''

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'' published by

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, and a member of the

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Biography

Charles Pellat was born in

French Algeria French Algeria (french: Alger to 1839, then afterwards; unofficially , ar, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of French colonisation of Algeria. French rule in the region began in 1830 with the ...

. He was professor of Arabic at the Collège Louis le Grand from 1947 to 1951, at the

École des langues orientales Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( en, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. ...

from 1951 to 1956, and at the

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from 1956 to 1978. In 1984 he became a member of the

. He was a contributing editor to several articles of the second edition of the ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', published by

; throughout his career, he had translated several works written in Arabic by the classical Muslim scholar

al-Jāḥiẓ Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī ( ar, أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري), commonly known as al-Jāḥiẓ ( ar, links=no, الجاحظ, ''The Bug Eyed'', born 776 – died December 868/Jan ...

(781-869 CE) into French.

Works

* (ed.) ''Description de l'Occident musulman au IVe-Xe siècle'' by Al-Muqaddasi * (tr. from

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) ''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

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) ''Le livre des avares'' by

. 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

) ''Le livre de la couronne: Kitāb at-tāǧ (fī ạḫlāq al-mulūk)'' by

. Paris: Société d'édition "Les belles lettres", 1954. * (ed.) ''Le Kitāb at-tarbīʿ wa-t-tadwīr de Ğāḥiẓ'' by

. Damascus: Institut franc̜ais de Damas, 1955. * ''Textes berbères dans le parler des Ait Seghrouchen de la Moulouya'', Paris: Larose, 1955. * ''Livre des mulets'' by

. 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 Claude Cahen (26 February 1909 – 18 November 1991) was a 20th-century French Marxist orientalist and historian. He specialized in the studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the Crusades, and social history of the medieval Isla ...

) ''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' Abū Muhammad ʿAbd Allāh Rūzbih ibn Dādūya ( ar, ابو محمد عبدالله روزبه ابن دادويه), born Rōzbih pūr-i Dādōē ( fa, روزبه پور دادویه), more commonly known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ( ar, ابن الم� ...

. 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. * non. '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

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