Henri Basset (7 November 1892 – 13 April 1926) was a 20th-century French historian, orientalist and

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and a Berberologist.

Biography

The son of René Basset and elder brother of

André Basset André Basset (4 August 1895 – 24 January 1956) was a French linguist. René Basset was his father and Henri Basset his older brother. Bibliography *1929: ''La langue berbère. Morphologie. Le verbe: étude de thèmes'', Paris, Leroux. ied ...

, Henri Basset joined the

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in 1912. A teacher at the "École supérieure de langue arabe et de dialectes berbères" from 1916, he passed his doctorate in 1920 at the faculté de Lettres of Algiers with two works entitled ''Essai sur la littérature des Berbères'' and '' Le culte des grottes au Maroc'' and was appointed the same year deputy director of the ''Institut des hautes études marocaines''.

Bibliography

*1920
''Essai sur la littérature des Berbères''
(Paris: Ibis press - Awal, 2001 ) *1920
''Le culte des grottes au Maroc''
Alger: J. Carbonel, (Clichy: Éd. du Jasmin, 1999 ) *1921: ''Graffiti de Chella'', ''Hespéris'' I with J. Campardou, (p. 87–90), fig. *1922: Les rites de la laine à Rabat", ''Hespéris'' II, (p. 139–160) *1923: ''Chella. Une nécropole mérinide'', with

Évariste Lévi-Provençal Évariste Lévi-Provençal (4 January 1894 – 27 March 1956) was a French medievalist, orientalist, Arabist, and historian of Islam. The scholar who would take the name Lévi-Provençal was born 4 January 1894 in Constantine, French Algeria, ...

, Paris, E. Larose *1923: ''Deux pétroglyphes du Maroc Occidental, région des Zaer'', ''Hespéris'' III, (p. 141–145), 2 pl. *1923: ''Le Nouveau manuscrit berbère : le Kitâb el-mawįẓa'', ''Journal Asiatique''. I/299-303 *1927: ''La tradition almohade à Marrakech: 1 °. À l'époque mérinide : La mosquée et le minaret de Ben Salîh. Le minaret de Moulay el Ksour : 2 °. À l'époque sa'dienne : La mosquée Mouassin'', ''Hespéris'' VII, with

Henri Terrasse Henri Terrasse (Vrigny-aux-Bois, 8 August 1895 – Grenoble, 11 October 1971) was a French historian, archeologist, and orientalist who specialized in the art and history of the Islamic world and of Morocco in particular. Biography Terrasse wa ...

, , (p. 247–345), fig., pl. *1924: ''Sanctuaires et forteresses almohades: I. Tinmel : II. Les deux Kotobîya'', ''Hespéris'' 4, with Henri Terrasse, pp. 9-2, 181-04; ''III. Le Minaret de la Kotobîya'', ''Hespéris'' V (1925), (p. 311–376); ''III. Minaret de la Kotobiya (suite) : IV. Oratoire de la Kotobiya : V. Chaire de la Kotobiya : VI. Mosquée de la Qasba'', ''Hespéris'' VI (1926), (p. 107–270); ''Le ribât de Tît : Le Tasghîmout'', ''Hespéris'' VII (1927), (p. 117–171). *1932: ''Sanctuaires et forteresses almohades'', with Henri Terrasse, Paris: Larose, VIII-483 p.

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