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unusual facts about Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy



Forbes Falconer

Afterwards proceeding to Paris he attended, during nearly five years, the courses of de Sacy, de Chézy, and, for Hindustani, of Garcin de Tassy.

Jonas King

To prepare himself for his missionary duties outside the United States, he had gone to Paris and studied Arabic under De Sacy.

Shāh Khalīlullāh III

Scottish traveller and author James Baillie Fraser described the Imam as “a person of high respectability and great influence”, while French linguist and orientalist Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy quoted a description of the Imam as “This person, whom his people grace with the pompous title of caliph, enjoys a great reputation and is considered to have the gift of performing miracles”.


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