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Jean Druel

Born in 1971 in France, Jean Druel is a researcher at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo. A specialist in the history of Arabic grammar, he directed IDEO from 2014 to 2020.

After completing a Master’s degree in Coptic theology and patristics, he trained as an Arabic teacher at the American University in Cairo (Master’s degree obtained in 2006, Emphatic sounds in educated Cairene Arabic). In 2012, he defended his doctoral thesis in the history of Arabic grammar at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Kees Versteegh (Numerals in Arabic grammatical theory).

He directed the Project of 200 (2013‒2016), a project aimed at the historical contextualization of works by 200 authors from the Arab-Muslim heritage. His current research focuses on the manuscripts of Sībawayh’s Kitāb (d. 180/796?) and the transmission of this grammar treatise in the early centuries. His critical edition of the Milan / Kazan manuscript of the Kitāb is due to be published by Brill in 2025.

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Institut dominicain d’Etudes orientales - Egypt

Project 200 : An historical contextualization of 200 authors from the Arab Muslim heritage (Closed)

The project is to report systematically on 200 former Arab authors (belonging to the first 10 centuries of the Hegira ) their lists of works (lost, written or edited ) and the relationships that these works have with each other (commentary, summary , refutation … ) We will give importance to the links between the […]

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