Author · Algeria
Auguste Mouliéras
Died in 1931
Auguste Mouliéras was born in 1855 and became a professor of Arabic in Algeria. He learned Kabyle and, in 1891, took down in Latin characters, from the dictation of storytellers of the Aït Jennad, a vast body of tales. He then turned to Morocco, which he described without travelling there himself, relying on the memory of a Kabyle who had wandered there for twenty-two years as a dervish student, a method for which he was criticised. His collections remain a major source for the study of the Kabyle tale. He died in 1931.
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- TaleLégendes et contes merveilleux de la Grande KabylieAuguste Mouliéras · 1893not translated into EnglishLiterature