Denise Masson (5 August 1901 – 10 November 1994), nicknamed "the Lady of Marrakech", was a 20th-century French islamologist who translated the

Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...

from Arabic into French, published in 1967. According to her colleague

André Chouraqui Nathan André Chouraqui (; 11 August 1917 – 9 July 2007) was a French- Algerian- Israeli lawyer, writer, scholar and politician. Early life Chouraqui was born in Aïn Témouchent, Algeria. His parents, Isaac Chouraqui and Meleha Meyer, both ...

, she may have been inspired by the Latin translation of Louis Maracci (1698), repeated by Christian Reineccius.

Publications

*1958: . *1967: Le Coran, Gallimard *1980:

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade The ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'' (, "Pleiades Library") is a French editorial collection which was created in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, an independent young editor. Schiffrin wanted to provide the public with reference editions of the ...

. *1986: *1986: *1988: *1989: Autobiography.

References

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Biographie de Denise Masson
on Institut français de Marrakech
Le Coran, traduction de Denise Masson [compte rendu]
on Persée
''Denise Masson, la dame de Marrakech''
video on KTO {{DEFAULTSORT:Masson, Denise 1901 births Writers from Paris 1994 deaths French scholars of Islam Translators of the Quran into French 20th-century French translators