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 (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , s ...

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

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, she may have been inspired by the Latin translation of

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(1698), repeated by Christian Reineccius.

Publications

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

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

References

External links

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 translators