Henry Laurens (scholar)

Henry Laurens (scholar)

:"For the American Revolutionary statesman, see Henry Laurens.Henry Laurens (born in 1954) is a French historian, one of France's foremost experts on the Middle East, and author of several reference works about the Arab-Muslim world.

He earned his degree, and doctorate, specialising in Arabic literature, at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) in Paris. From 1981 to 1983 he studied and tauught abroad in Damascus and Cairo. He was awarded a doctorate, with high distinction, in 1989 at the Sorbonne–Paris IV, with a thesis on 'The French Revolution and Islam,:History and Meanings of the Egyptian Expedition, 1798-1801'. He is currently Professor and Chair of History of the Contemporary Arab World at the Collège de France, Paris.

Laurens specializes in several related areas of research: European-Ottoman contacts in the 19th. century, Franco-Arab relations, Middle eastern politics, European thought in the 18th. and 19th centuries, and the history of modern Palestine, about which he has written a three-volume work covering the period from 1799 to the present day. Since 1999 he has served on the Administrative Council of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo. In 2004 he became a member of the High Council of the Institute of the Arab World (IMA) in Paris. He is also on the editorial board of the journal "Maghreb-Machrek".

* 1981-1982 Scholarship student at the French Institute of Arab Studies in Damascus (Syria)
* 1982-1983 French lecturer at Cairo University.

Bibliography

*"Aux sources de l'orientalisme", 1978
*"Les Origines intellectuelles de l'expédition d'Égypte. L'orientalisme islamisant en France (1698-1798)", 1987
*"Kléber en Égypte, Kléber et Bonaparte", 1988
*"Le Royaume impossible, la France et la genèse du monde arabe" 1990
*"Le Grand Jeu, Orient arabe et rivalités internationales", 1991
*"Lawrence en Arabie", 1992
*"L'Orient arabe, Arabisme et islamisme de 1798 à 1945", 1993, réédition en 2000.
*"Kléber en Égypte, Kléber commandant en chef", 1995
*"L'Expédition d'Égypte, Paris", 1996
*"Édition présentée et annotée des Campagnes d'Égypte et de Syrie de Napoléon Bonaparte", 1998
*"Le Retour des exilés, la lutte pour la Palestine de 1869 à 1997", 1998
*"Paix et guerre au Moyen-Orient, l'Orient arabe et le monde de 1945 à nos jours", 1999
*"La Question de Palestine I, l'invention de la Terre sainte", 1999
*"La Question de Palestine II, Une mission sacrée de civilisation", 2002
*"L'Orient arabe à l'heure américaine", 2004
*"Orientales I, Autour de l'expédition d'Égypte", 2004
*"Orientales II, La IIIe République et l'Islam", 2004
*"Orientales III, Parcours et situations", 2004
*"La Question de Palestine III, L'Accomplissement des prophéthies 1947-1967", 2007

See also

*List of Islamic studies scholars (Non-Muslims)

External links

* [http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/his_ara/p1074683730012.htm Biography on the website of the Collège de France]


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