Mikhail Alexandrovich Salye was a Soviet Arabist scholar and translator. Salye was the first to translate One Thousand and One Nights into Russian directly from the Arabic source. Additionally, he translated into Russian seven tales not contained in the Calcutta II edition of One Thousand and One Nights.
Academics born in the 1890s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1899 to 1961 · aged 62
Written about in
5 languages
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