Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (15 December 1862 – 12 August 1957) was a French

Arabist An Arabist is someone, often but not always from outside the Arab world, who specialises in the study of the Arabic language and Arab culture, culture (usually including Arabic literature). Origins Arabists began in Al Andalus, medieval Muslim ...

, a specialist in

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and the

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. His best known works are his historical and religious studies on

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and Muslim institutions. He also translated into French in an annotated edition the story of Arab travel writer and explorer

Ibn Jubair Ibn Jubayr (1 September 1145 – 29 November 1217; ), also written Ibn Jubair, Ibn Jobair, and Ibn Djubayr, was an Arab geographer, traveller and poet from al-Andalus. His travel chronicle describes the pilgrimage he made to Mecca from 1183 to 11 ...

(1145–1217).''Ibn Jubayr: Voyages. Traduits et annotés''. Paris,

Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner is a French bookstore and publishing house founded in Paris in 1901 by the eponymous publisher, Paul Geuthner, a Saxon from Leipzig, who was naturalized French in 1914 and died in 1949. Librairie Orientaliste ...

, 1949-1965 (4 parts in 1 volume). (c. 1965) (''Documents relatifs à l'histoire des Croisades'', 4-7) His book written after Arab authors on Syria at the time of the

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is also a seminal work. Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes was a professor at the

École nationale des langues orientales vivantes Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (; ), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French Grand Etablissement with a specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europ ...

(today INALCO).

Works

*1898: Ibn Khaldoun : ''Les Rois de Grenade'' (translation) *1900: ''Les Cérémonies du mariage en Algérie'' *1923: ''Le Pèlerinage à la Mekke. Étude d'histoire religieuse''. (Annales of the

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: Bibliothèque d'études; 33) *1921: ''Les Institutions musulmanes'' *1957: ''Mahomet. L'Homme et son message'' *1931: (in collaboration with S.F. Platonov) ''Le Monde musulman et byzantin jusqu'aux croisades''. Paris, E. de Boccard, (Histoire du Monde 7,1) *1925: (in collaboration with Louis Mercier) ''Manuel d'arabe marocain. Grammaire et dialogues''. New edition revised and enlarged by Louis Mercier. Société d'éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales *1923: ''La Syrie à l'époque des Mamelouks d'après les auteurs arabes: description géographique, économique et administrative précédée d'une introduction sur l'organisation gouvernementale'' / Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes. Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, (Haut-Commissariat de la République Française en Syrie et au Liban : Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, Vol III.) *1927: Masālik el abṣār fi ... / 1 / L'Afrique, moins l'Égypte / Abu-'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn-Yaḥyā Šihāb-ad-Dīn Ibn-Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī. Paris. *1927: Masālik el abṣār fi mamālik el amṣār / Abu-'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn-Yaḥyā Šihāb-ad-Dīn Ibn-Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī. Paris. *1949: ''Voyages''. First edition, four volumes, Librairie orientaliste Geuthner, 1949, 1951, 1953–1956 and 1965 (Documents related to the history of the Crusades published by the

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

. Vol I–III, plus Atlas). *1965: ''Voyages'' / P. 4 / Tables / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair. *1953–1956: ''Voyages''; P. 3 / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair. *1951: ''Voyages''; P. 2 / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair. *1949: ''Voyages''; P. 1 / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair. *1952: ''Grammaire de l'arabe classique: (morphologie et syntaxe)'' /

Régis Blachère Régis Blachère (30 June 1900 – 7 August 1973) was a French orientalist and translator of the Quran. Biography Agrégé in Arabic (1924), he was a member of the Institut de France (1972), director of studies at the Institut des hautes études ...

. - 3e éd., reworked (reprint): *undated: ''Les cent et une nuits''. Translated from Arabic. Librairie orientale et américaine E. Guilmoto, Translated with extensive notes from a modern North African manuscript with variants from three others. *1927: Masālik El Abṣār fi ... / 1 / ''L'Afrique, moins l'Égypte'' / Abu-'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn-Yaḥyā Šihāb-ad-Dīn Ibn-Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī. *1907: ''Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari''. Includes (p. 107–122) a comparative list of 200 words from Bua, Niellim, Fanian and Tunia languages, with a short grammar and a few sentences collected by Decorse.

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George Cœdès George Cœdès (; 10 August 1886 – 2 October 1969) was a French scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history. Biography Cœdès was born in Paris to a family known as having settled in the region of Strasbourg before 1740. His ancestor ...

, ''Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, membre de l’Académie.'' In: ''Comptes-rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.'' Jg. 103 (1959), n°1, (p. 46–60)
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