Jean-Paul Roux, PhD (5 January 1925 – 29 June 2009) was a French
Turkologist and a specialist in
Islamic culture
Islamic culture and Muslim culture refer to cultural practices which are common to historically Islamic people. The early forms of Muslim culture, from the Rashidun Caliphate to the early Umayyad period and the early Abbasid period, were predomi ...
.
He was a graduate of the
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, the
École du Louvre, and the
École Pratique des Hautes Études. In 1966 he was awarded a doctorate in literature in
Paris. He was director of research at
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
from 1957 to 1970, the Science Secretary for the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations from 1960 to 1966, and a teacher of
Islamic art at the
École du Louvre. He was General Commissioner for the Islamic Arts at the Orangerie de
Tuileries in 1971 and also at the
Grand Palais
The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées ( en, Great Palace of the Elysian Fields), commonly known as the Grand Palais (English: Great Palace), is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arro ...
in 1977. Jean-Paul Roux's ''Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire'' (2003) has been described as an "admirable short introduction" by historian
David Morgan.
[David Morgan,]
The Mongols
, p.186, Blackwell Publishing,
Publications
*''Gengis Khan et l'Empire mongol'', collection «
Découvertes Gallimard
(, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in pocket format. The books are concise introductions to pa ...
» (nº 422), série Histoire. Paris: Éditions Gallimard (2002)
** US edition – ''Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire'', "
Abrams Discoveries" series. New York: Harry N. Abrams (2003)
** UK edition – ''Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire'', '
New Horizons
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' series. London: Thames & Hudson (2003)
*''Montagnes sacrées, montagnes mythiques ''(1999)
*''L'Asie centrale, histoire et civilisation ''(1997)
*''Le roi, mythes et symbole ''(1995)
*''Histoire de l'empire mongol'' (1993)
*''Tamerlan ''(1991)
*''Jésus ''(1989)
*''Le sang. Mythes, symboles et réalités'' (1988)
*''Babur, histoire des Grands Moghols'' (1986)
*''Histoire des Turcs ''(1984)
*''Les explorateurs au Moyen Âge'' (1985, written with Sylvie-Anne Roux )
*''La Religion des Turcs et des Mongols'' (1984)
*''Mustafa Kemal et la Turquie nouvelle ''(1983)
*''Les traditions des nomades de la Turquie méridionale : contribution à l'étude des représentations religieuses des sociétés turques d'après les enquêtes effectuées chez les Yörük et les Tahtaci'' (1969)
*''Faune et flore sacrées dans les sociétés altaïques ''(1966)
*''La mort (la survie) chez les peuples altaïques anciens et médiévaux d'après les documents écrits'' (1963)
References
BiblioMonde
Notes
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Historians of Islamic art
University of Paris alumni
1925 births
Mongolists
Turkologists
2009 deaths
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French historians
20th-century French male writers
Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey