1903 A History of Arabic Literature by Clement Huart, First Edition

Description: A History of Arabic Literature by Clement Huart, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1903, 478pp, cloth, 5.5 x 8", 12mo Fair condition. Wear and scuffing to boards. Gilt embossed illustration on front board. Tips are bumped. Title in gilt on spine. Library catalog info sticker on spine. Library info plate on front pastedown. Blind stamp for Bigelow Free Public Library on title page and scattered throughout textblock. No known marginalia. Minor toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Binding is beginning to crack, but still secure overall. Please see photos. Clement Huart (16 February 1854 - 30 December 1926) was a French orientalist, publisher, and translator of Persian, Turkish, and Arabic writings. Huart began studying Arabic at fourteen and graduated in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and modern Greek at the Ecole des langues orientales. He continued his studies at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, where he wrote his thesis, which was a translation of the Traite des termes relatifs a la description de la beaute by Cheref-Eddin Rami. After he joined the Ministere des affaires etrangeres, he was sent as a student-dragoman to the Consulate of France in Damascus and was later consul in Istanbul. After the death of Charles Schefer, he held the Chair of Persian at the Ecole des langues orientales, where Henri Masse succeeded him. In 1908, he was appointed Director of Studies for Islam and the religions of Arabia at the EPHE. In January 1919, he was elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, of which he became president in 1927. He was also a member of the Societe Asiatique and of the Academie des sciences coloniales, president of the Societe de linguistique and the Societe d'ethnographique. FORN-TUB-0062-BB-2411-JC1327

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