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Philippe Marçais

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Philippe Marçais
Born16 March 1910
Algiers
Died31 May 1984(1984-05-31) (aged 74)
Paris
Occupation(s)Politician
Scholar

Philippe Marçais (16 March 1910 – 31 May 1984) was a French Arabist and politician. A director of the Médersa de Tlemcen [fr] from 1938 to 1945, he was dean of the Faculté des Lettres d'Alger and député of French Algeria from 1958 to 1962. The Arabist William Marçais was his father.

Works

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  • 1952: Le parler arabe de Djidjelli (Nord constantinois, Algérie), Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Publications de l'Institut d'Études Orientales d'Alger.
  • 1954: Textes arabes de Djidjelli, text, transcription and translation, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.
  • 1977: Esquisse grammaticale de l'arabe maghrébin, Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient.
  • 1977: Textes d'arabe maghrébin, with MS.S Hamrouni, Paris, Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient.
  • 2001: Textes arabes du Fezzân, text and translation, Paris, Droz.
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