Omar Khayyam’s Arabic treatise on algebra, Maqāla fi’l-jabr wa’l-moqābala (see KHAYYAM xiv. AS MATHEMATICIAN), translated by Franz Woepcke (1826-64) as…

MOHL, JULIUS (Fr., Jules Mohl), German orientalist, editor and translator of the Šāh-nāma, and professor of Persian at the Collège…

The first work in French to mention Hafez was Les six voyages written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (q.v.; 1605-89) in 1676, in which Tavernier described Hafez’s tomb (see HAFEZ xiv). The first translation of one of his poems into French appeared in the Voyages (1686, repr., 1711) of Jean…

GARCIN DE TASSY, JOSEPH-HÉLIODORE SAGESSE VERTU (b. Marseille, 20 January 1794/d. Paris, 2 September 1878; Figure 1), French scholar of…