Charles Adrien Casimir Barbier de Meynard (6 February 1826 – 31 March 1908), born at sea on a ship from

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

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, was a nineteenth-century French historian and orientalist.

Biography

His studies focused on the early history of

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the ...

and the

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. Among his other works, he completed

Julius von Mohl Julius von Mohl (25 October 1800 – 4 January 1876) was a German Orientalist. Life The brother of Hugo von Mohl and Robert von Mohl, he was born at Stuttgart. He abandoned the idea of entering the Lutheran ministry, and in 1823 went to Pari ...

's translation of Ferdowsi's '' Shahnama'', with the French title ''Livre des Rois''. This was the first European translation of the pivotal work made available to a wide audience. Barbier de Meynard also translated numerous works by

al-Masudi Al-Mas'udi ( ar, أَبُو ٱلْحَسَن عَلِيّ ٱبْن ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱلْمَسْعُودِيّ, '; –956) was an Arab historian, geographer and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the " Herodotu ...

ibn Khordadbeh Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh ( ar, ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خرداذبه; 820/825–913), commonly known as Ibn Khordadbeh (also spelled Ibn Khurradadhbih; ), was a high-ranking Persian bureaucrat and ...

and other

-era historians. He studied the history of

Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheisti ...

, editing the ''Dictionnaire Géographique de la Perse'', and wrote about the then-nascent

Baháʼí Faith The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th century, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the ...

. He was involved in the editing of the 19th-century edition of Crusader sources in Arabic with French translations, the

Recueil des Historiens des Croisades {{italic title The ''Recueil des historiens des croisades'' (trans: ''Collection of the Historians of the Crusades'') is a major collection of several thousand medieval documents written during the Crusades. The documents were collected and publis ...

. Barbier de Meynard was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1895.

Selected works

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Dictionnaire géographique, historique et littéraire de la Perse et des contrées adjacentes, extrait du ″Mo'djem el-Bouldan″ de Yaquout, et complété à l'aide de documents arabes et persans pour la plupart inédits
', Paris, Impr. Impériale, 1861, XXI-640 p. * '' Le Livre des routes et des provinces par Ibn-Khordadbeh'', published, translated and annotated by C. Barbier de Meynard, Paris, Impr. impériale, 1865, 283 p. * ''Le Livre des Rois'', de Ferdowsî (940-1020), translated and commentated Jules Mohl, in collab. with Charles Barbier de Meynard, Paris, 1876-1878, 7 vol. (Cette traduction a été revue par Charles Pellat en vue d'une nouvelle édition à partir de 1962). * ''Traduction nouvelle du traité de Ghazâlî 058-1111intitulé : le Préservatif de l'erreur, et notices sur les extases (des soufis)'', Paris, Impr. nationale, 1877, 93 p. * ''Dictionnaire turc-français : supplément aux dictionnaires publiés jusqu'à ce jour'', Paris, E. Leroux, 1881-1886, 2 vol., X-786 + 898 p. * Traduction de ''L'Alchimiste'' de Feth-Ali Akhounzadé, Paris, Ed. Imprimerie nationale, 1886; édition numérique consultable sur google :https://archive.org/details/Lalchimiste * ''Abou Chamah : ''Le Livre des deux jardins'', histoire des deux règnes : celui de Nour Ed-Dîn et celui de Salah Ed-Dîn'', (trad. par Barbier de Meynard), Paris, 1898. In-fol., XI-525 p. * Mas'ûdî (X^es.- 956 ?),''Les Prairies d'or (Murūǧ al-d̲ahab wa-ma´ādin al-ǧawhar)'', trad. de Barbier de Meynard et Pavet de Courteille, Paris, Impr. Impériale/Nationale, 1861-1877, 9 vol. Nouvelle édition revue par Charles Pellat, Paris, Société asiatique, 1962-1997, 5 vol.

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Notice biographique
par Charles Pellat *
Éloge funèbre de M. le baron Jean-Joseph de Witte, membre de l'Académie des Inscription et belles-lettres / Paris : Institut de France. 1989. Volume 3. (p. 250–252)
par Charles Barbier de Meynard. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barbier de Meynard, Charles 1826 births 1908 deaths People born at sea 19th-century French historians Scholars of medieval Islamic history French orientalists French Arabists French Iranologists Dragomans Translators from Persian Translators to French Collège de France faculty Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Members of the Ligue de la patrie française Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Société Asiatique 19th-century translators

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