Armen (Claude) Z. Moutafian (born 21 July 1942) is a French mathematician and a historian who specializes in Armenian history. Foreign Member of Armenian Academy of Sciences.Armenian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Members
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Zareh Mutafian Zareh Mutafian ( hy, Զարեհ Մութաֆյան; March 15, 1907 - May 11, 1980) was a French-Armenian painter. Biography He was born in Samsun, on the seaside of Black sea then in the Ottoman Empire. Mutafian was the only one in his family wh ...

Biography

Born in 1942 in Clamart, France, Claude Mutafian is an associate professor of mathematics and senior lecturer from the Paris 13 University in Villetaneuse. Following the publication of several books on algebra, Mutafian devoted himself to Armenian history since 1980, particularly to the relations of Armenia with its various neighbors over time. Ph.D. in history from

Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Sin ...

, Mutafian is the author of several books on the history of Armenia.

Publications

* ''Le Défi algébrique'', 1976, * ''La Cilicie au carrefour des empires, tome 1 et 2'', 1988, * ''The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh'', 1994, by Levon Chorbajian, Patrick Donabedian, and Claude Mutafian, * ''Atlas historique et culturel de l'Arménie : Proche-Orient et Sud-Caucase du 8e au 20e siècle'', 2001, by Claude Mutafian and Eric Van Lauwe, * ''Le Royaume Arménien de Cilicie, XIIe-XIVe siècle'', 2002, * ''Les yeux brûlants'', 2006, by Antoine Agoudjian, Claude Mutafian, Raymond-H Kévorkian, and Atom Egoyan, * ''Arménie : La magie de l'écrit'', 2007, * ''L' Arménie du Levant'', 2012,

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1942 births Living people People from Clamart University of Paris alumni Armenian studies scholars French people of Armenian descent 20th-century French historians Ethnic Armenian historians French male non-fiction writers 21st-century French historians {{armenia-historian-stub