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

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

and the

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

Hajj The Hajj (; ar, حَجّ '; sometimes also spelled Hadj, Hadji or Haj in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried ...

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; ar, ابن جبير), 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 M ...

(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

Mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...

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

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(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 Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions ( epig ...

. 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 Qur'an. Bibliography *1975: ''Analecta'', Institut français de Damas, Damas, 1975. *2002: ''Le Coran'', Presses universitaires de France, (Que s ...

. - 3e éd., reworked (reprint): *undated: ''Les cent et une nuits''. Translated from Arbic. 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.

Bibliography

* George Cœdès, ''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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