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Henry Laurens (born 1954) is a French historian and author of several histories and studies about the Arab-Muslim world. He is Professor and Chair of History of the Contemporary
Biography
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Henry Laurens, "L'orientaliste"
''L'Histoire'', May 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Laurens, Henry 1954 births 20th-century French historians University of Paris alumni Living people French Arabists Academic staff of the Collège de France French orientalists Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
Henry Laurens (born 1954) is a French historian and author of several histories and studies about the Arab-Muslim world. He is Professor and Chair of History of the Contemporary Arab world
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at the Collège de France
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, Paris.
Biography
Laurens earned his degree of Arab civilization from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations ( INALCO) in Paris. From 1981 to 1983, he studied and taught abroad inDamascus
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and Cairo
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. He was awarded his doctorate, with high distinction, in 1989 at the Sorbonne–Paris IV, with a thesis on ''The French Revolution and Islam : History and Meanings of the Egyptian Expedition, 1798-1801.''
From 1981 to 1982, Henry Laurens was Scholarship student at the French Institute of Arab Studies in Damascus
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and from 1982 to 1983, he was French lecturer at Cairo University
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. From 1983 to 1990, he was assistant professor in contemporary history at the Paris-Sorbonne University
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. Professor of Late modern period
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at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
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from 1991 to 2001, Henry Laurens is also the director of the ''Mediterranean Studies'' doctoral training there from 1992 to 1995 and the director of the ''North Africa Middle East'' department from 1992 to 1994. He has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2003.
A member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
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since 1991, of the Scientific Commission for Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
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since 2011 and of the Board of Directors of the Sciences Po
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since 2016, he is also on the editorial board of the journal ''Maghreb-Machrek''.
Laurens specializes in several related areas of research: European-Ottoman contacts in the 19th century, Franco-Arab relations, Middle-Eastern politics, European thought in the 18th and 19th centuries and the history of modern Palestine.
Honours and awards
Honours
* 2011 : Knight of theLegion of Honour
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Awards
* 2004 : Prize ''Joseph-du-Teil'' of theAcadémie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...
* 2016 : Grand prix Gobert of the Académie Française
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* 2017 : Prize ''Auguste-Pavie'' of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer
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* 2019 : Phoenix Prize for Literature (Lebanon)
* 2021 : Mahmoud Darwich Prize (Palestine)
Acknowledgement
* Member of theAcadémie des sciences d'outre-mer
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* Member of the high scientific council of the Institut du Monde Arabe
The ''Institut du Monde Arabe'', French for Arab World Institute, abbreviated ''IMA'', is an organization founded in Paris in 1980 by France with 18 Arab countries to research and disseminate information about the Arab world and its cultural ...
Main publications
* ''Aux sources de l'orientalisme : la Bibliothèque orientale de Barthélemi d'Herbelot'', Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 1978. * ''Les Origines intellectuelles de l'expédition d'Égypte : l'orientalisme islamisant en France (1698-1798)'', Istanbul-Paris : Isis, 1987. * ''Kléber en Égypte : Kléber et Bonaparte'', Cairo : Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1988. * ''Le Royaume impossible : la France et la genèse du monde arabe'', Paris : Armand Colin, 1990. * ''Le Grand Jeu : Orient arabe et rivalités internationales'', Paris : Armand Colin, 1991. *''Lawrence en Arabie'', Paris :Découvertes Gallimard
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, 1992.
* ''L'Orient arabe : arabisme et islamisme de 1798 à 1945'', Paris : Armand Colin, 1993.
* ''Kléber en Égypte : Kléber commandant en chef'', Cairo : Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1995.
* ''L'expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801)'', Paris : Seuil, 1997.
* ''Campagnes d'Égypte et de Syrie de Napoléon Bonaparte'' ritical edition Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1998.
* ''Le Retour des exilés, la lutte pour la Palestine de 1869 à 1997'', Paris : Robert Laffont, 1998.
* ''Paix et Guerre au Moyen-Orient, l'Orient arabe et le monde de 1945 à nos jours'', Paris : Armand Colin, 1999.
* ''La Question de Palestine'', Paris : Fayard, 1999-2015 (5 volumes).
* ''L'Orient arabe à l'heure américaine. De la guerre du Golfe à la guerre d'Irak'', Paris : Armand Colin, 2004.
* ''Orientales I : autour de l'expédition d'Égypte'', Paris : French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2004.
* ''Orientales II : la IIIe République et l'Islam'', Paris : French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2004.
* ''Orientales III : parcours et situations'', Paris : French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2004.
* ''Histoire du monde arabe contemporain'', Paris : Fayard/Collège de France, 2004.
* ''Les relations entre les États-Unis et le monde'' arabe, Tunis : Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, 2004.
* ''L'Empire et ses ennemis'', Paris : Seuil, 2009.
* ''Le rêve méditerranéen : grandeurs et avatars'', Paris : French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2009.
* ''Orients'', Paris : French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2009.
* ''Terrorismes : histoire et droit'' diting and direction Paris : French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2010.
* ''La Question d'Orient. Discours et articles politiques (1834-1861) : Alphonse de Lamartine'', Brussels : André Versaille, 2011.
* ''Français et arabes depuis deux siècles : la chose franco-arabe'', Paris : Tallandier, 2012.
* ''Histoires orientales'', Paris : L'Orient des livres / Actes Sud, 2013.
* ''Ernest Renan. La science, la religion, la République'' diting and direction Paris : Odile Jacob, 2013.
* ''Europe and the Islamic world: A history'', Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
* ''Méditerranées politiques'', Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2017.
* ''Orientales IV : L’Orient dans tous ses états'', Paris : French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2017.
* ''Les crises d'Orient. Tome 1 : 1768-1914'', Paris : Fayard, 2017.
* ''Les crises d'Orient. Tome 2 : La naissance du Moyen-Orient (1914-1949)'', Paris : Fayard, 2019.
* ''Le passé imposé'', Paris : Fayard, 2022.
See also
*List of Islamic studies scholars
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Lists
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(Non-Muslims)
References
External links
Biography
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Henry Laurens, "L'orientaliste"
''L'Histoire'', May 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Laurens, Henry 1954 births 20th-century French historians University of Paris alumni Living people French Arabists Academic staff of the Collège de France French orientalists Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur