André Raymond (7 August 1925 – 18 February 2011) was

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at the

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. He was an expert on the history of the city in the Arab world.

Early life

André Raymond was born on 7 August 1925 in

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, France.

Career

Raymond was director of the French Institute for Arab Studies in Damascus, and of the Institute for Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic World, in Aix-en-Provence. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus at the University of Provence. Raymond was an expert on the city in the Arab world about which he wrote several books. In 2002 his essays and articles on the subject were collected for a volume in the

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series titled ''Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb''.''Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period''.
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Death

Raymond died on 18 February 2011.

Selected publications

*''The great Arab cities in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: An introduction''.

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, 1984. ( Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization) *''Le Caire''. 1993. *''Cairo: City of history''. Cairo:

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. (Translator Willard Wood) * *''Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb''. Ashgate Variorum, 2002. (Variorum Collected Studies series)

References

1925 births 2011 deaths Academic staff of the University of Provence 20th-century French historians Historians of the Middle East {{France-historian-stub